The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 112
And the princess fell on her knees, and begged she might die with him.
Who acts: princess · What happens: fall, beg, die · To what, where: knees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 die | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the princess | princess's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the princess not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | might | princess | with sultan | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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