The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 51
This was done in a few minutes, and the Princess, stepping into the chariot with the Prince, was delighted to find her parrot again.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, step, be, find · To what, where: This, chariot, parrot
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 (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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 minutes | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minutes | amod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 delighted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 delighted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 delighted | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepping | punct |
| 13 | stepping | step | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Princess | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 chariot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chariot | det |
| 16 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stepping | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 chariot | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Princess | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 delighted | cop |
| 22 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 delighted | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 parrot | nmod:poss |
| 26 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 find | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | minute | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | step | gerund | the Princess not said here | the chariot with the Prince | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chariot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Princess | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | Princess's parrot | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Topic |
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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