The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 128

And the old woman hobbled off with great alacrity, and fetched a little bundle containing a wretched dress, such as the Princess had never even seen before, and nimbly skipped round, helping her to put it on instead of her own rich robe, with many exclamations of:

Who acts: old woman, little bundle, Princess · What happens: hobble off, fetch, contain, not see, skip, help · To what, where: little bundle, wretched dress, Princess, dress

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 (old woman, little bundle, 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	_	5 hobbled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hobbled	nsubj
5	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 hobbled	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 alacrity	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 alacrity	amod
9	alacrity	alacrity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hobbled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fetched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fetched	cc
12	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hobbled	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bundle	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bundle	amod
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fetched	obj
16	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 bundle	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dress	det
18	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dress	amod
19	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 containing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	24 Princess	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	21 such	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obl
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 seen	advmod
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 seen	advmod
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 dress	acl:relcl
29	before	before	ADV	_	28 seen	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 skipped	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 skipped	cc
32	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	33 skipped	advmod
33	skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hobbled	conj
34	round	round	ADV	_	33 skipped	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 helping	punct
36	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 skipped	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 helping	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 put	mark
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 helping	xcomp
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 put	obj
41	on	on	ADP	_	39 put	compound:prt
42	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	47 robe	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	42 instead	fixed
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 robe	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 robe	amod
46	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 robe	amod
47	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 exclamations	punct
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 exclamations	case
50	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 exclamations	amod
51	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 skipped	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	51 exclamations	nmod
53	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 hobbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hobble off	past	the old woman		with great alacrity	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	past	the old woman not said here	a little bundle		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
3	contain	gerund	a little bundle not said here	a wretched dress		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dress=Theme
4	not see	past · perfect		a wretched dress not said here	such the Princess; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	skip	participle	the old woman not said here		with many exclamations; nimbly, round property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	help	gerund	the old woman not said here	Princess		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	put on	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	dress	instead Princess's own rich robe	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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