The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 46

Then the princess, according to their understanding, began to clean her wings with her bill, and the lad said: ‘She who cleans her wings is the princess.’

Who acts: princess, lad, maidens · What happens: accord, begin, clean, say, be, understand · To what, where: wings, princess · 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 (princess, lad, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 princess	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 understanding	punct
5	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 understanding	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 according	fixed
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 understanding	nmod:poss
8	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 princess	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 princess	punct
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 clean	mark
12	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clean	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 bill	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bill	nmod:poss
17	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clean	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lad	det
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 cleans	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 cleans	punct
25	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cleans	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 cleans	nsubj
27	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 princess	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wings	nmod:poss
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cleans	obj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 princess	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the princess and maidens's understanding			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	clean	to-infinitive	the princess and maidens's understanding not said here	princess's wings	with princess's bill	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wing=Patient with bill=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	past	the lad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	clean	present	princess	princess's wings		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
6	is a	present		the princess		tree rules
7	understand		maidens = maiden			nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	bill		princess			nom bill «communication 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 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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