The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 88
So, without even bidding farewell to the King and Queen, she left the valley behind her, and wandered sadly away, not caring whither.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: bid, leave, wander, not care · To what, where: valley
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 (Queen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 bidding | mark |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 bidding | advmod |
| 5 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 left | advcl |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 5 bidding | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bidding | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Queen | cc |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bidding | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 valley | det |
| 16 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wandered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wandered | cc |
| 21 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | conj |
| 22 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 wandered | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 caring | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 caring | advmod |
| 26 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 wandered | advcl |
| 27 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 caring | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | Queen not said here | to the King and Queen; farewell property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Queen | the valley | behind Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent valley=Theme behind she=Location | |||
| 3 | wander | past | Queen not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not care | gerund | Queen not said here | whither property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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