The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 48
When he found her listening attentively to him, he implored the Princess to allow him to resume his natural shape.
Who acts: parrot, Princess · What happens: find, listen, implore, allow, resume · To what, where: Princess, parrot, natural shape
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 implored | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 5 listening | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listening | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 implored | nsubj |
| 11 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 implored | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 allow | mark |
| 15 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Princess | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 allow | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 resume | mark |
| 18 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allow | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shape | nmod:poss |
| 20 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shape | amod |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resume | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | parrot | Princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | Princess not said here | parrot | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | |||
| 3 | implore | past | parrot | the Princess | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | allow | to-infinitive | parrot not said here | parrot | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | resume not said to happen | to-infinitive | parrot not said here | parrot's natural shape | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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