The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 54
When she entered they all bid her welcome, and made her sit down.
Who acts: princess, toads · What happens: enter, bid, make, sit down, welcome · To what, where: welcome, princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, toads), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bid | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 they | det |
| 6 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 welcome | nmod:poss |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bid | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bid | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sit | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | princess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bid | past | toads = toad | princess's welcome | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | toads = toad not said here | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit down | infinitive | princess not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | welcome | princess | nom welcome «state 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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