The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 58
The three girls stayed quietly in the palace for a little while, embroidering, spinning, weaving, and tending their birds and flowers, when early one morning, the youngest princess entered the door of the emperor’s private apartments.
Who acts: three girls, youngest princess · What happens: stay, embroider, spin, weave, tend, enter · To what, where: palace, birds, door
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 (three girls, youngest 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 girls | nummod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 while | amod |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 embroidering | punct |
| 14 | embroidering | embroider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stayed | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spinning | punct |
| 16 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 embroidering | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weaving | punct |
| 18 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 embroidering | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tending | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tending | cc |
| 21 | tending | tend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 embroidering | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 birds | nmod:poss |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tending | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 flowers | cc |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 birds | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 early | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 early | advmod |
| 28 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | parataxis |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 morning | nummod |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 early | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 entered | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princess | det |
| 33 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 princess | amod |
| 34 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | nsubj |
| 35 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 door | det |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 apartments | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 emperor | det |
| 40 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 emperor | case |
| 42 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 apartments | amod |
| 43 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 door | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the three girls | the palace for a little while | quietly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | embroider | gerund | the three girls not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | the three girls not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | weave | gerund | the three girls not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tend | gerund | the three girls not said here | children's birds and flowers | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enter | past | the youngest princess | the door of the emperor's private apartments | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination |
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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