The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 40
They did what she asked, and when she entered in a magnificent dress, she looked so beautiful that all saw she must be a princess in disguise.
Who acts: parents, girl · What happens: do, ask, enter, look, see, be · To what, where: magnificent dress, princess, disguise
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 (parents, girl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 entered | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dress | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dress | det |
| 13 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dress | amod |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 saw | advmod |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | advcl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 princess | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 princess | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 princess | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 princess | det |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 disguise | case |
| 29 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 princess | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | parents = parent | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | girl | a magnificent dress | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | girl | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | past | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | must | girl | a princess | disguise | tree rules |
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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