The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 18
‘Here she broke off with a significant look, and mounting my enemy the unicorn, speedily disappeared.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: break off, mount, disappear · To what, where: enemy
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 broke | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 broke | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 look | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 look | det |
| 8 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | amod |
| 9 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mounting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mounting | cc |
| 12 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 broke | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounting | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 unicorn | det |
| 16 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 disappeared | punct |
| 18 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 19 disappeared | advmod |
| 19 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | Princess | here | with a significant look | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with look=Instrument | |||
| 2 | mount | gerund | Princess not said here | my enemy | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme unicorn=Destination | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | Princess not said here | speedily property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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