The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 100
She was lying asleep on the dog’s back, and was so beautiful that anyone could see she was a real Princess.
Who acts: end, anyone · What happens: lie, be, see · To what, where: real Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, anyone), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 ’s | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | nsubj |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 ’s | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beautiful | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beautiful | advcl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Princess | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Princess | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Princess | amod |
| 23 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | end | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | could | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | end | a real Princess | 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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