The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 6
For some time the Princess remained speechless; but recovering herself a little, she burst into a flood of tears.
Who acts: Princess, tears · What happens: remain, recover, burst, flood · To what, where: Princess, flood
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, tears), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 remained | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 recovering | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 recovering | cc |
| 10 | recovering | recover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 remained | advcl |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 recovering | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 recovering | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burst | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 burst | nsubj |
| 16 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remained | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 flood | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flood | det |
| 19 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burst | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tears | case |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flood | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the Princess | time | speechless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | recover | gerund | the Princess not said here | Princess | a little obl:unmarked | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 3 | burst | past | Princess | a flood of tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flood | tears | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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