The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 23
The princess looked at them closely, and felt the edges and points of their blades, then she hung at her belt an old sword with a curved blade, that would have done credit to an ancient warrior.
Who acts: princess · What happens: look, feel, hang, curve, do, point · To what, where: edges, belt, that, blades
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), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edges | det |
| 11 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 felt | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 points | cc |
| 13 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 edges | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 blades | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 blades | nmod:poss |
| 16 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 points | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hung | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 hung | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hung | nsubj |
| 20 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 belt | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 belt | nmod:poss |
| 23 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hung | obl |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sword | amod |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belt | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 blade | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blade | det |
| 29 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 blade | amod |
| 30 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sword | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 done | punct |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 done | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 done | aux |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 done | aux |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hung | conj |
| 36 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 warrior | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 warrior | det |
| 39 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 warrior | amod |
| 40 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the princess | at stones = stone; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the edges and points of stones's blades | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang | past | princess | princess's belt and a old sword with a curved blade | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at belt=Location | |||
| 4 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 5 | do | would · perfect · passive | that | to a ancient warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | point | stones's blades | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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