The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 9
The poor Princess went sadly up to her room and began to cry, but when she was reminded of her father’s commands, she dried her eyes, and made a bundle of her jewels and her best dresses and hurriedly left the castle where she was born.
Who acts: poor Princess, Princess, father · What happens: go, begin, cry, remind, dry, make · To what, where: room, Princess, eyes, bundle, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor Princess, Princess, father), 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 | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cry | mark |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reminded | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 reminded | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 reminded | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reminded | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reminded | aux:pass |
| 19 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 commands | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 father | case |
| 24 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reminded | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dried | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dried | nsubj |
| 27 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dried | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dried | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bundle | det |
| 34 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 jewels | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 37 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bundle | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dresses | cc |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 40 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 dresses | amod |
| 41 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 jewels | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 left | cc |
| 43 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 44 left | advmod |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 castle | det |
| 46 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 left | obj |
| 47 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 born | advmod |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 born | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 born | aux:pass |
| 50 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 castle | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor Princess | Princess's room | sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the poor Princess not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the poor Princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remind speech: other | past · passive | Princess | of Princess's father's commands | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of command=Topic | ||||
| 5 | dry | past | Princess | Princess's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | ||||
| 6 | make | past | Princess not said here | a bundle of Princess's jewels and Princess's best dresses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bundle=Product | ||||
| 7 | leave | past | Princess not said here | the castle | hurriedly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 8 | bear | past · passive | Princess | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 9 | command | Princess's father | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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