The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 103
They heard her coming, faster, faster; and again the princess stooped to ask what was to be done now.
Who acts: mountains, princess · What happens: hear, come, stoop, ask, do · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 coming | nmod:poss |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 heard | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 faster | punct |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 coming | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faster | punct |
| 8 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 faster | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stooped | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 stooped | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stooped | nsubj |
| 14 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stooped | xcomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 done | obj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ask | ccomp |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 done | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | mountains = mountain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | mountains = mountain not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stoop | past | the princess | again | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | past · passive | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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