The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 105
The breath of the princess came and went, and her feet rattled in the stirrups.
Who acts: breath · What happens: come, go, rattle · To what, where: feet, stirrups
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breath), 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 breath | det |
| 2 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breath | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feet | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feet | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 feet | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stirrups | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stirrups | det |
| 16 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rattled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the breath of the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the breath of the princess not said here | breath's feet | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rattle | participle | breath's feet not said here | the stirrups | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stirrup=Location |
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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