The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 23
But early the next morning she appeared at my bedside, saying, with an apologetic air:
Who acts: Queen · What happens: appear, say · To what, where: bedside · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 appeared | cc |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 bedside | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bedside | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 appeared | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 air | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 16 | apologetic | apologetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Queen | my bedside | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bedside=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Queen not said here | with a apologetic air | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with air=Manner |
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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