The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 38
The Princess recognised it as soon as her eyes fell upon it, and after that she could no longer doubt that he had indeed married Turritella.
Who acts: Princess, eyes · What happens: recognise, fall, marry · To what, where: ring, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, eyes), 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 | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recognised | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 recognised | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 fell | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soon | advcl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 married | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 married | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 married | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 married | aux |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 married | advmod |
| 21 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 married | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 married | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 married | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 married | aux |
| 25 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 26 married | advmod |
| 26 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 recognised | conj |
| 27 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 married | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the Princess | ring | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Princess's eyes | ring | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | ||||
| 3 | marry | could · perfect · passive | Princess | after that | indeed, long property | 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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