The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 89
After walking until she was weary, she saw before her a tiny house, and turned her slow steps towards it.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: walk, be, see, turn, step · To what, where: tiny house, slow steps
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 (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 walking | mark |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | advcl |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 weary | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 weary | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 weary | cop |
| 6 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 walking | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walking | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 steps | nmod:poss |
| 19 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 steps | amod |
| 20 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | obj |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | Princess not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Princess | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Princess | a tiny house | before Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | turn | past | Princess not said here | Princess's slow steps | towards step | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme towards it=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | step | Princess | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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