The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 74
‘There came a lovely princess,’ replied the landlady, ‘in a coach of gold.
Who acts: lovely princess · What happens: come, reply · To what, where: landlady, coach
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 (lovely 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 landlady | det |
| 11 | landlady | landlady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coach | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 16 coach | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 coach | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coach | det |
| 16 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coach | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a lovely princess | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the landlady | a coach of gold | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent landlady=Topic |
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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