The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 80
The ships were soon ready, and the princess entered the largest and finest, with Sunlight at her side.
Who acts: ships, princess · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: largest Sunlight, side
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 (ships, 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 ships | det |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ready | advmod |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entered | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sunlight | det |
| 12 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 Sunlight | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finest | cc |
| 14 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 largest | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sunlight | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Sunlight | case |
| 17 | Sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ships | ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the princess | the largest Sunlight | princess's side | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunlight=Destination |
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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