The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 76
On hearing this advice, the princess went at once into the emperor’s presence.
Who acts: princess · What happens: hear, go · To what, where: advice, presence
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 advice | det |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 emperor | det |
| 13 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 presence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 emperor | case |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the princess not said here | this advice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the princess | the emperor's presence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location |
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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