The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 85
And so two years slipped away, and still the Princess was a prisoner, and Turritella was not married.
Who acts: two years, Princess · What happens: slip away, be, not marry · To what, where: prisoner, Turritella
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 (two years, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 slipped | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prisoner | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 prisoner | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 prisoner | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 prisoner | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prisoner | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prisoner | det |
| 14 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 married | cc |
| 17 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 married | advmod |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slipped | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | two years | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Princess | a prisoner | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not marry | past · passive | Turritella | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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