The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 5
She had hardly finished speaking before the Princess was rushing headlong out of the castle gate, and the Fairy after watching her till she was lost to sight, gave a little chuckle and went in search of the Prince, who begged her earnestly to send him back to the Black Castle, or to the paper boat if she would but save Placida’s life.
Who acts: Chaffinch, Princess, Fairy · What happens: finish, speak, rush, watch, lose, give · To what, where: Fairy, Chaffinch, little chuckle, search, Prince, Black Castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chaffinch, Princess, Fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 finished | advmod |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 finished | xcomp |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 rushing | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rushing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rushing | aux |
| 10 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 speaking | ccomp |
| 11 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rushing | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | compound |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 headlong | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fairy | det |
| 20 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 watching | mark |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 Fairy | acl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watching | obj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 lost | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lost | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lost | aux:pass |
| 27 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 watching | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lost | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fairy | punct |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 chuckle | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chuckle | amod |
| 34 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 search | case |
| 38 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 begged | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Prince | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Prince | det |
| 41 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 search | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 begged | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 begged | nsubj |
| 44 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 went | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 begged | obj |
| 46 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 48 send | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 send | mark |
| 48 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 begged | xcomp |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 send | obj |
| 50 | back | back | ADV | _ | 48 send | advmod |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 Castle | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Castle | det |
| 53 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Castle | compound |
| 54 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 send | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 boat | punct |
| 56 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 60 boat | cc |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 boat | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 boat | det |
| 59 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 boat | compound |
| 60 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 send | obl |
| 61 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 63 would | mark |
| 62 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 would | nsubj |
| 63 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 send | advcl |
| 64 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 65 save | cc |
| 65 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 send | conj |
| 66 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 life | nmod:poss |
| 67 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 66 Placida | case |
| 68 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 save | obj |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Chaffinch | hardly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Chaffinch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rush | past · progressive | the Princess | headlong property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the Fairy not said here | Fairy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | Chaffinch | to sight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | give | past | the Fairy | a little chuckle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuckle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | past | the Fairy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | beg speech: request | past | Fairy | search of the Prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | send back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince | the Black Castle | to the paper boat; earnestly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 10 | save | infinitive | Placida's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||||
| 11 | search | the Prince | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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