The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 193
The Princess jumped and gave a little cry.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: jump, give · To what, where: little cry
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cry | amod |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the Princess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the Princess not said here | a little cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=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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