The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 19
She stroked it, caressed it, and played with it.
Who acts: princess · What happens: stroke, caress, play · To what, where: joy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stroked | nsubj |
| 2 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stroked | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caressed | punct |
| 5 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stroked | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caressed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 played | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 played | cc |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stroked | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | princess | joy | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | caress | past | princess not said here | joy | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play | past | princess not said here | with joy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |
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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