The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 124
Their hopes faded as they gazed, but their mothers whispered together, saying, ‘Surely this is our lost princess!’
Who acts: hopes, mothers, this, maidens · What happens: fade, gaze, whisper, say, lose, be · To what, where: lost princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hopes, mothers, this, maidens), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 faded | nsubj |
| 3 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 gazed | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gazed | nsubj |
| 6 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 faded | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 whispered | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 faded | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 whispered | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 whispered | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 princess | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 princess | punct |
| 17 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 22 princess | advmod |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 princess | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 princess | cop |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 princess | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 princess | amod |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 princess | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | past | maidens's hopes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | hopes = hope | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | maidens's mothers | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | maidens's mothers not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | this | our lost princess | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hope | maidens = maiden | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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