The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 82
Then looking at the princess who had come early to the stable, he said joyfully,
Who acts: mistress, princess · What happens: look, come, say · To what, where: stable · 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 (mistress, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 looking | advmod |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 princess | acl:relcl |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 stable | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stable | det |
| 12 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 looking | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | mistress not said here | then | at the princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the princess | the stable | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | mistress | joyfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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