The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 112
Thereupon she made the Princess sit down beside her, and began fingering her silken robe, while she muttered ‘Lace on top, lace underneath!
Who acts: madam, Princess · What happens: make, sit down, begin, finger, mutter · To what, where: silken robe, Lace, top
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | nsubj |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | ccomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sit | compound:prt |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 13 | fingering | finger | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 robe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 robe | amod |
| 16 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fingering | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 muttered | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 muttered | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 muttered | nsubj |
| 20 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | conj |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Lace | punct |
| 22 | Lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 muttered | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Lace | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lace | punct |
| 26 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Lace | conj |
| 27 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 26 lace | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | madam | thereupon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | present | the Princess | beside madam | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | finger | gerund | madam's silken robe | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mutter speech: assert | past | Princess | Lace and lace | top | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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