The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 48
The princess was led straight up to the throne, and explained, in a low voice, the reason of her coming.
Who acts: reason · What happens: lead, explain, come · To what, where: princess, throne, low voice
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 (reason), 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 | 4 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 explained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 explained | cc |
| 12 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 voice | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 explained | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reason | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reason | det |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voice | conj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 coming | nmod:poss |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 reason | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the princess | the throne | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to throne=Destination | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | a low voice and the reason | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the reason not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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