The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 17
When the Princess saw that there was no more hope of changing her father’s resolution, she determined to flee away.
Who acts: Princess, more hope, father · What happens: see, not be, change, determine, flee away, resolve · To what, where: more hope, resolution · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, more hope, father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 determined | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hope | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hope | cop |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 hope | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 hope | amod |
| 10 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 changing | mark |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hope | acl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resolution | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 father | case |
| 16 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 determined | nsubj |
| 19 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 flee | mark |
| 21 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 determined | xcomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 flee | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | more hope | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | change | gerund | more hope not said here | Princess's father's resolution | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Patient | ||||
| 4 | determine | past | Princess | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | flee away | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | resolve | Princess's father | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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