The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 56
She stepped out of her carriage to look more closely at the wonderful sight, and laughed again over the capers the poor captives cut.
Who acts: Princess, poor captives · What happens: step out, look, laugh, cut · To what, where: carriage, capers
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, poor captives), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 carriage | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 carriage | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stepped | advcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 closely | advmod |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sight | amod |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 laughed | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 capers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 capers | det |
| 21 | capers | caper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laughed | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 captives | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 captives | amod |
| 24 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cut | nsubj |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 capers | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | Princess | Princess's carriage | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location carriage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | at the wonderful sight; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | Princess not said here | the capers | again | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | cut | present | the poor captives | the capers not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset caper=Product |
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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