The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 146
The princess blushed and looked very uncomfortable, but had to admit that it was true.
Who acts: princess, kiss · What happens: blush, look, have, admit, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, kiss), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blushed | nsubj |
| 3 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blushed | conj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 7 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blushed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 admit | mark |
| 12 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 true | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 true | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 true | cop |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 admit | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past | the princess | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the princess not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | kiss | true property | 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 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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