The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 57
The princess was fond of cooking, and was, besides, very good-natured; so she put on an apron and went down to the kitchen without delay.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, put, go down · To what, where: apron
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 | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cooking | case |
| 6 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fond | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 besides | punct |
| 11 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 fond | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 natured | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 natured | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 natured | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 16 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fond | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 apron | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 apron | det |
| 23 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 kitchen | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 kitchen | det |
| 29 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 delay | case |
| 31 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | of cooking; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | the princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | put | past | princess | a apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on apron=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go down | past | princess not said here | to the kitchen; without delay; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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