The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 69
Happy at having got her way, the princess decided that the first thing to be done was to find some old white-haired boyard, whose advice she could trust, and then to be very careful in choosing her horse.
Who acts: princess, first thing, thing · What happens: have, get, decide, do, be, trust · To what, where: way, advice, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, first thing, thing), 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 3 having | mark |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 decided | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decided | nsubj |
| 10 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thing | acl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 decided | ccomp |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 boyard | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boyard | amod |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 haired | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 white | punct |
| 25 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boyard | amod |
| 26 | boyard | boyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 advice | punct |
| 28 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 advice | nmod:poss |
| 29 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boyard | appos |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 trust | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 trust | aux |
| 32 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 advice | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 careful | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 careful | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 careful | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 careful | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 careful | cop |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 careful | advmod |
| 39 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 40 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 41 choosing | mark |
| 41 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 careful | advcl |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 horse | nmod:poss |
| 43 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 choosing | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | sister's way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | decide | past | the princess | sister's way not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive · passive | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | past | the first thing | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | trust | could | thing | some old haired boyard's advice not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | then | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | choose | gerund | thing's horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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