The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 30

As soon as she caught sight of him, the princess went up and told him that Iliane had escaped, and that his mother, in her efforts to recapture her, had died of rage.

Who acts: Iliane, princess · What happens: catch, go up, tell, escape, recapture, die · To what, where: sight, genius, Iliane · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Iliane, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 caught	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 caught	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sight	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 escaped	mark
18	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 escaped	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 escaped	aux
20	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 told	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 died	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 mother	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 efforts	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 efforts	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 efforts	nmod:poss
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mother	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 recapture	mark
31	recapture	recapture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 efforts	acl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 recapture	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mother	punct
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 died	aux
35	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 caught	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 rage	case
37	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Iliane	sight of genius		soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	go up	past	the princess				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	past	the princess not said here		genius		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	escape	past · perfect	Iliane				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	recapture	to-infinitive		Iliane			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	die	past · perfect	Iliane not said here			of rage	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of rage=Causer
7	sight			genius			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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