The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 173
But at length it was time to go back to the little house, and as they went along Celandine remembered for the first time what a ragged old dress she was wearing, and what an odd appearance she must present.
Who acts: length, trials, Celandine, house, appearance · What happens: be, go back, go along, remember, wear, present · To what, where: time, length, ragged old dress, odd appearance
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 (length, trials, Celandine, house), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 time | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 remembered | mark |
| 20 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 remembered | nsubj |
| 21 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remembered | obl |
| 26 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 30 dress | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dress | det |
| 28 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dress | amod |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dress | amod |
| 30 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | nmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wearing | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wearing | aux |
| 33 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 dress | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 what | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 what | cc |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 went | parataxis |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 appearance | det |
| 38 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 appearance | amod |
| 39 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 what | nsubj |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 present | nsubj |
| 41 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 present | aux |
| 42 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 appearance | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | length | time | length | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | to the little house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||||
| 3 | go along | past | trials = trial | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | remember | past | Celandine | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wear | past · progressive | house | what ragged old dress not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 6 | present | must | appearance | a odd appearance not said here | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme |
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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