The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 10

The Princess in the woods, always running, always listening, pursuing hotly after two creatures which seemed to her very hard to catch, which she yet never ceased from pursuing.

Who acts: Princess, two creatures · What happens: run, listen, pursue, seem, catch, not cease · To what, where: pursuing

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, two creatures), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 running	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woods	det
5	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Princess	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 running	advmod
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listening	punct
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 listening	advmod
11	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 running	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pursuing	punct
13	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 running	conj
14	hotly	hotly	ADV	_	13 pursuing	advmod
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 creatures	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 creatures	nummod
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pursuing	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 creatures	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 hard	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hard	nmod:poss
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 hard	advmod
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seemed	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hard	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ceased	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 ceased	nsubj:pass
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ceased	nsubj:pass
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 ceased	advmod
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 ceased	advmod
31	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hard	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 pursuing	case
33	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ceased	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	the Princess in the woods			always property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	gerund	the Princess in the woods not said here			always property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	pursue	gerund	the Princess in the woods not said here		after two creatures	hotly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after creature=Theme
4	seem	past	two creatures			to Princess's hard	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	catch	to-infinitive	two creatures not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not cease	participle · passive		pursuing	yet		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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