The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 10
Unfortunately, the Fairy found this out, and just as I was falling into a sweet slumber, she made me get up once more, but even then I managed to escape her vigilance, and only took off my upper robe.
Who acts: Fairy, I, unicorn, me · What happens: find out, fall, make, get up, manage, escape · To what, where: this, sweet slumber, me, vigilance, upper robe
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, I, unicorn, me), 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unfortunately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 falling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 falling | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 falling | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 falling | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 falling | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 falling | aux |
| 14 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 found | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 slumber | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 slumber | det |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slumber | amod |
| 18 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 falling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | xcomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 get | compound:prt |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 get | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 managed | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 managed | cc |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 then | advmod |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 managed | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 managed | nsubj |
| 32 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 escape | mark |
| 34 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 managed | xcomp |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 vigilance | nmod:poss |
| 36 | vigilance | vigilance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 escape | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 took | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 took | cc |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 took | advmod |
| 40 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 took | compound:prt |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 robe | nmod:poss |
| 43 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 robe | amod |
| 44 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 took | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | the Fairy | this | unfortunately property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 2 | fall | past · progressive | I | into a sweet slumber result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into slumber=Result | ||||
| 3 | make | past | unicorn | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get up | infinitive | me not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | manage | past | I | then | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | escape | to-infinitive | I not said here | unicorn's vigilance | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vigilance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | take off | past | the Fairy not said here | my upper robe | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
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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