The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 41
Husband, come and catch the little Princess who is running away with my boat!”
Who acts: Husband, little Princess · What happens: come, catch, run away · To what, where: little Princess
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 (Husband, little 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 | Husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Husband | punct |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 catch | cc |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Princess | amod |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 running | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 running | aux |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 running | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 boat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 running | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch | infinitive | Husband not said here | the little Princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run away | present · progressive | the little Princess | with my boat; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with boat=Material |
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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