The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 94
Then the Princess gave them splendid presents, or rather sat by while Prince Vivien gave them, and there were great rejoicings in the Green Castle, and everyone did his best to please the Prince and Princess.
Who acts: Princess, Vivien, great rejoicings, everyone · What happens: give, sit by, be, do, please · To what, where: splendid presents, adventures, best, Prince
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, Vivien, great rejoicings, everyone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 presents | amod |
| 7 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sat | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 gave | mark |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Vivien | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 were | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 were | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 were | expl |
| 21 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gave | conj |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rejoicings | amod |
| 23 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 were | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Castle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Castle | det |
| 26 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Castle | amod |
| 27 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rejoicings | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 did | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 did | cc |
| 30 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 did | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 best | nmod:poss |
| 33 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 did | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 please | mark |
| 35 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 did | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Prince | det |
| 37 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 please | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Princess | cc |
| 39 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Prince | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Princess | splendid presents | adventures = adventure | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme | ||
| 2 | sit by | participle | the Princess not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Vivien Prince | adventures = adventure | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | great rejoicings in the Green Castle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | everyone | Vivien's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | please | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | the Prince and Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=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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