The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 306
The Princess had scarcely tasted it, when the tip of the horns disappeared.
Who acts: Princess, tip · What happens: taste, disappear · To what, where: glass
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, tip), 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 | 5 tasted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tasted | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 tasted | advmod |
| 5 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tasted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disappeared | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 disappeared | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tip | det |
| 10 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 horns | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horns | det |
| 13 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tip | nmod |
| 14 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tasted | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | past · perfect | the Princess | glass | scarcely property | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | the tip of the horns | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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