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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 despair | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 bent | advmod |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 bent | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bent | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 was | nsubj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 nothing | amod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 more | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 replied | cc |
| 23 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 replied | nsubj |
| 24 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Quick | punct |
| 26 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 replied | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 quick | punct |
| 28 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Quick | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 take | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ring | det |
| 33 | betrothal | betrothal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ring | amod |
| 34 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 finger | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 finger | det |
| 37 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Iliane | case |
| 39 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 finger | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 throw | cc |
| 41 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 throw | obj |
| 43 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 throw | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | participle · passive | the princess | despair | then; again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in despair=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | Sunlight | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take off | infinitive | the betrothal ring | the finger of Iliane | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 7 | throw | infinitive | ring | behind you | vn 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/