The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 44

Now the Princess came walking past with all her ladies-in-waiting, and when she heard the tune she stood still and her face beamed with joy, for she also could play ‘Where is Augustus dear?’

Who acts: Princess, bird · What happens: come, walk, hear, stand, beam, play · To what, where: tune, face, Augustus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bird), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	past	past	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ladies	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ladies	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ladies	nmod:poss
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walking	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 waiting	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 waiting	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ladies	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 heard	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tune	det
21	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tune	acl:relcl
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 stood	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 face	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tune	conj
28	beamed	beam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 face	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 joy	case
30	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beamed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 play	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 play	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 play	nsubj
34	also	also	ADV	_	36 play	advmod
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 play	aux
36	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	ccomp
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 Where	punct
38	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 Augustus	advmod
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 Augustus	cop
40	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 play	obj
41	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Augustus	amod
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 play	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Princess		now		tree rules
2	walk	gerund	the Princess not said here			with bird's ladies and waiting; past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	bird	the tune and bird's face			tree rules
4	stand	past	bird	the tune and bird's face not said here	still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus
5	beam	participle		bird's face not said here		with joy	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme
6	play	could	bird				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present		Augustus			tree rules

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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