The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 210
The Princess understood that it was no time for jesting, and did not answer.
Who acts: Princess, journey · What happens: understand, be, not answer · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
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, journey), 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 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 time | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 jesting | case |
| 10 | jesting | jesting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 answer | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 answer | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 answer | advmod |
| 15 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 understood | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | journey | no time | for jesting | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | the Princess not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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