The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 23
The princess bowed and went to consult Sunlight.
Who acts: princess · What happens: bow, go, consult · To what, where: Sunlight
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 (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 | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 consult | mark |
| 7 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 consult | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the princess | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the princess not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | Sunlight | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme |
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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