The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 23
It came to this in the end, that she transported the Princess just as she was, cosily tucked up upon her favourite couch, to her own Grotto, and this new disappearance left all the people in despair, and Gridelin went about looking more distracted than ever.
Who acts: much, trouble, new disappearance, Gridelin · What happens: come, transport, be, tuck up, leave, go · To what, where: end, Princess, own Grotto, favourite couch, people, despair
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, trouble, new disappearance, Gridelin), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 transported | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 transported | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 transported | nsubj |
| 11 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 transported | obj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 was | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 transported | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tucked | punct |
| 19 | cosily | cosily | ADV | _ | 20 tucked | advmod |
| 20 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 transported | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 tucked | compound:prt |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 couch | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 couch | nmod:poss |
| 24 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 couch | amod |
| 25 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tucked | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Grotto | punct |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Grotto | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Grotto | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Grotto | amod |
| 30 | Grotto | Grotto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tucked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 left | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 left | cc |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 disappearance | det |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 disappearance | amod |
| 35 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 left | nsubj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | parataxis |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 people | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 people | det |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 left | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 despair | case |
| 41 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 people | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 went | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 went | cc |
| 44 | Gridelin | Gridelin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 went | nsubj |
| 45 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 46 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 47 looking | mark |
| 47 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 went | advcl |
| 48 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 distracted | advmod |
| 49 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 looking | xcomp |
| 50 | than | than | ADP | _ | 51 ever | case |
| 51 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 49 distracted | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | much | in the end | to this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | transport | past | trouble | the Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | past | trouble | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tuck up | participle | trouble not said here | trouble's own Grotto | trouble's favourite couch | cosily property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent upon couch=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | leave | participle | this new disappearance | all people | despair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme in despair=Location | |||
| 6 | go | past | Gridelin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | look | gerund | Gridelin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | distract | participle | Gridelin not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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