The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 8
When the flying princess saw what had happened she rode back to the spot, as Sunlight counselled her, and placed her finger on the top of the tower, which was gradually shrinking into the earth.
Who acts: flying princess, princess, Sunlight, tower · What happens: fly, see, happen, ride back, counsell, place · To what, where: spot, princess, finger, top, earth · 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 (flying princess, princess, Sunlight, tower), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 princess | amod |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 counselled | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 counselled | mark |
| 17 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 counselled | nsubj |
| 18 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 counselled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placed | cc |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 finger | nmod:poss |
| 24 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tower | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tower | det |
| 30 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shrinking | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 shrinking | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 shrinking | aux |
| 34 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 35 shrinking | advmod |
| 35 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 tower | acl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 earth | det |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shrinking | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | the flying princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ride back | past | princess | the spot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to spot=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | counsell | past | Sunlight | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | place | past | princess not said here | princess's finger | the top of the tower | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 7 | shrink | past · progressive | the tower | into the earth result; gradually property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into earth=Result |
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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