The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 5
Before answering, the princess consulted her own horse as to which offer she should accept, and he advised her to side with the genius who was master of Sunlight, his own younger brother, and still more active than himself.
Who acts: princess, other, genius · What happens: answer, consult, offer, accept, advise, be · To what, where: own horse, princess, master
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, other, genius), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 answering | mark |
| 2 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 consulted | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 answering | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | nsubj |
| 6 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 offer | mark |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 offer | nsubj |
| 13 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 consulted | advcl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accept | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 accept | aux |
| 16 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 offer | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advised | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advised | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advised | nsubj |
| 20 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consulted | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advised | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 side | mark |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 advised | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 genius | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 genius | det |
| 26 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 advised | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 master | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 master | cop |
| 29 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 genius | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Sunlight | case |
| 31 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 master | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brother | punct |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 brother | amod |
| 35 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 brother | amod |
| 36 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 genius | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 active | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 active | cc |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 more | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 active | advmod |
| 41 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 advised | conj |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 himself | case |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 active | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the princess not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | consult | past | the princess | princess's own horse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | accept | should | princess | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past | other | princess | with the genius and master and other's own younger brother | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a | past | the genius and master and other's own younger brother | master | of Sunlight | tree rules |
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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