The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 286

No sooner had she reached her room than the Princess exclaimed, ‘Now let us see what these fine plums can add to my beauty,’ and throwing off her hood, she picked up a couple and ate them.

Who acts: curiosity, Princess, us, fine plums · What happens: reach, exclaim, let, see, add, throw off · To what, where: room, us, hood, couple, food · 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 (curiosity, Princess, us, fine plums), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 reached	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 exclaimed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 exclaimed	nsubj
11	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 exclaimed	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 add	obl
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 plums	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plums	amod
21	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 add	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 add	aux
23	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 beauty	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 beauty	nmod:poss
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 add	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 add	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 throwing	cc
30	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 exclaimed	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	33 hood	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hood	nmod:poss
33	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throwing	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 picked	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 picked	nsubj
36	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 picked	compound:prt
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 couple	det
39	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 picked	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ate	cc
41	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 picked	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ate	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	curiosity	curiosity's room		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us	now		tree rules
4	see	infinitive	us not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	add speech: assert	can	this fine plums			to my beauty	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to beauty=Co-Patient
6	throw off	gerund	the Princess not said here	curiosity's hood			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme
7	pick up	past	curiosity	a couple			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Topic
8	eat	past	curiosity not said here	food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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