The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 33
He got in and sat down beside the beautiful Parsley, and thanked her heartily for her help, and told her how much he loved her.
Who acts: Prince, woman · What happens: get in, sit down, thank, tell, love, help · To what, where: beautiful Parsley, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, woman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 Parsley | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Parsley | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Parsley | amod |
| 10 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thanked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thanked | cc |
| 13 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thanked | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 help | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 help | nmod:poss |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heartily | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 loved | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | ccomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Prince not said here | the beautiful Parsley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside parsley=Location | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Prince not said here | heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Prince not said here | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | love | past | Prince | woman | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | help | woman | nom help «act 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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