The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 27
The buffalo skins were soon got, and the princess started off with Sunlight.
Who acts: princess · What happens: get, start off · To what, where: buffalo skins
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 | 3 skins | det |
| 2 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skins | compound |
| 3 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux:pass |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 started | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Sunlight | case |
| 14 | Sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · passive | the buffalo skins | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | start off | past | the princess | with Sunlight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sunlight=Subeventuality |
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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