Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / The Violet Fairy Book / The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa… / 1

The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 1

Then, in despair, the princess again bent down and asked if there was nothing more to be done, and Sunlight replied ‘Quick, quick, take off the betrothal ring on the finger of Iliane and throw it behind you.’

Who acts: nothing, Sunlight · What happens: bend down, ask, be, do, reply, take off · To what, where: princess, despair, betrothal ring, finger, ring

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, Sunlight), 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

advmodpunctcaseoblpunctdetnsubj:passadvmodcompound:prtccconjmarkexplccompnsubjamodmarkaux:passadvclpunctccnsubjparataxispunctadvmodpunctconjpunctparataxiscompound:prtdetamodobjcasedetoblcasenmodccconjobjcaseoblpunctpunctrootThenADV,PUNCTinADPdespairNOUN,PUNCTtheDETprincessNOUNagainADVbentVERBdownADPandCCONJaskedVERBifSCONJtherePRONwasVERBnothingPRONmoreADJtoPARTbeAUXdoneVERB,PUNCTandCCONJSunlightPROPNrepliedVERB‘PUNCTQuickADJ,PUNCTquickADJ,PUNCTtakeVERBoffADPtheDETbetrothalADJringNOUNonADPtheDETfingerNOUNofADPIlianePROPNandCCONJthrowVERBitPRONbehindADPyouPRON.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem9 bentadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Thenpunct
3ininADP_4 despaircase
4despairdespairNOUNNumber=Sing9 bentobl
5,,PUNCT_4 despairpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 princessdet
7princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing9 bentnsubj:pass
8againagainADV_9 bentadvmod
9bentbendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10downdownADP_9 bentcompound:prt
11andandCCONJ_12 askedcc
12askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 bentconj
13ififSCONJ_15 wasmark
14theretherePRONPronType=Dem15 wasexpl
15wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 askedccomp
16nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg15 wasnsubj
17moremoreADJDegree=Cmp16 nothingamod
18totoPART_20 donemark
19bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf20 doneaux:pass
20donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 moreadvcl
21,,PUNCT_24 repliedpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 repliedcc
23SunlightSunlightPROPNNumber=Sing24 repliednsubj
24repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 askedparataxis
25‘'PUNCT_26 Quickpunct
26QuickquickADJDegree=Pos24 repliedadvmod
27,,PUNCT_28 quickpunct
28quickquickADJDegree=Pos26 Quickconj
29,,PUNCT_30 takepunct
30taketakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin12 askedparataxis
31offoffADP_30 takecompound:prt
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 ringdet
33betrothalbetrothalADJDegree=Pos34 ringamod
34ringringNOUNNumber=Sing30 takeobj
35ononADP_37 fingercase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 fingerdet
37fingerfingerNOUNNumber=Sing30 takeobl
38ofofADP_39 Ilianecase
39IlianeIlianePROPNNumber=Sing37 fingernmod
40andandCCONJ_41 throwcc
41throwthrowVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin30 takeconj
42ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 throwobj
43behindbehindADP_44 youcase
44youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs41 throwobl
45..PUNCT_9 bentpunct
46’'PUNCT_9 bentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bend downparticiple · passivethe princessdespairthen; againvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in despair=Location
2ask speech: askpastvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3be a condition, not said to happenpastnothingtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4doto-infinitive · passivenothing not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»
5reply speech: assertpastSunlightvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6take offinfinitivethe betrothal ringthe finger of Ilianevn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
7throwinfinitiveringbehind youvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind you=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/1/