The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 189

The King’s daughter was sitting before a table counting the money that she emptied from the inexhaustible purse.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: sit, count, empty · To what, where: table, money, inexhaustible purse

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 money	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counting	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 emptied	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 emptied	nsubj
15	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 money	acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 purse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 purse	det
18	inexhaustible	inexhaustible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 purse	amod
19	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 emptied	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the King's daughter		a table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before table=Location
2	count	gerund	the King's daughter not said here	the money		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	empty	past	daughter	the money	the inexhaustible purse	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Theme from purse=Source

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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