The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 105
The princess did so, and a great forest sprang up behind them, and, so thick were its leaves, that even a wren could not get through.
Who acts: princess, great forest, thick leaves · What happens: do, spring up, be, not get through · To what, where: thick leaves, that
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 (princess, great forest, thick leaves), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprang | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprang | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprang | nsubj |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 sprang | compound:prt |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sprang | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thick | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thick | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thick | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 thick | advmod |
| 18 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leaves | amod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 leaves | cop |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 get | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 get | obj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 wren | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wren | det |
| 26 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obl |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 get | advmod |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sprang | ccomp |
| 30 | through | through | ADV | _ | 29 get | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spring up | past | a great forest | behind mountains = mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | ear's thick leaves | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not get through | could | ear's thick leaves | that | a wren obl; through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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