The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 37
In a short time all the maidens of the kingdom, including the peasant girls, had tried on the ring, and the King was just about to announce that their efforts had been in vain, when the Prince observed that he had not yet seen the shepherdess.
Who acts: King, efforts, Prince · What happens: try, be, observe, not see · To what, where: ring, shepherdess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, efforts, Prince), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tried | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 maidens | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maidens | det |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maidens | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 girls | punct |
| 12 | including | including | ADP | _ | 15 girls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girls | det |
| 14 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 girls | compound |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 maidens | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | aux |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ring | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 announce | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 announce | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 announce | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 announce | cop |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 about | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 announce | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 announce | mark |
| 30 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 vain | mark |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 33 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 vain | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 vain | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 vain | cop |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 vain | case |
| 37 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 announce | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 observed | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 observed | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Prince | det |
| 41 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 observed | nsubj |
| 42 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 vain | conj |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 seen | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 seen | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 seen | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 seen | advmod |
| 47 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 48 seen | advmod |
| 48 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 observed | ccomp |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 shepherdess | det |
| 50 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 seen | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect | the ring | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | about, announce property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | rings's efforts | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | observe | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect | King | the shepherdess | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherdess=Stimulus |
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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