The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 14
As soon as Militza saw the Prince she ran up to him and embraced him tenderly; and after he had told her all his adventures, they went into the palace, where a sumptuous meal awaited them.
Who acts: Militza, Prince, adventures, sumptuous meal · What happens: see, run up, embrace, tell, go, await · To what, where: Prince, adventures, Militza, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Militza, Prince, adventures, sumptuous meal), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | Militza | Militza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 embraced | cc |
| 14 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 embraced | obj |
| 16 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 embraced | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 told | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | aux |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 adventures | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 26 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 told | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 awaited | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 awaited | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 meal | det |
| 36 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 meal | amod |
| 37 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 awaited | nsubj |
| 38 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 went | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 awaited | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Militza | the Prince | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run up | past | Militza | Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | embrace | past | Militza not said here | Prince | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Prince | Prince's adventures | Militza | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient adventure=Topic | |||
| 5 | go | past | adventures = adventure | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | await | past | a sumptuous meal | adventures = adventure | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | adventure | Prince | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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