The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 22
Now they perceived that she was a true Princess, because she had felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down quilts.
Who acts: eyes, Princess · What happens: perceive, be, feel · To what, where: true Princess, pea, twenty mattresses
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 Princess | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Princess | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Princess | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Princess | amod |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 felt | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | aux |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 perceived | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pea | det |
| 16 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 mattresses | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mattresses | det |
| 19 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 mattresses | nummod |
| 20 | mattresses | mattress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 felt | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 quilts | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 quilts | det |
| 23 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 eider | nummod |
| 24 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 down | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 eider | punct |
| 26 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quilts | compound |
| 27 | quilts | quilt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mattresses | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | eyes = eye | now | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Princess | a true Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past · perfect | Princess | the pea | the twenty mattresses and the down quilts | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pea=Theme through mattress=Location |
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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