The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 20
After a while the lamb got loose, which, when the princess saw, she said: ‘See, father, the lamb is free.’
Who acts: lamb, princess · What happens: get, see, say, be · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lamb, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lamb | det |
| 5 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 See | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 See | punct |
| 20 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 father | punct |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 See | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 free | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lamb | det |
| 25 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 free | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 free | cop |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 father | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 See | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the lamb | while | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the lamb | free 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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