The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 40
On the second night the Princess sent her lady-in-waiting, hoping that she might succeed better, but the servant took away her mantle and chased her away also.
Who acts: Princess, poison, servant · What happens: send, wait, hope, succeed, take away, chase away · To what, where: lady, mantle, poison
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, poison, servant), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lady | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 waiting | mark |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sent | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hoping | punct |
| 15 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 waiting | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 succeed | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 succeed | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 succeed | aux |
| 19 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hoping | advcl |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 succeed | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 servant | det |
| 24 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 took | advmod |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 chased | cc |
| 30 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 chased | obj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 chased | advmod |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 chased | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Princess | poison's lady | night | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | succeed | might | poison | good property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take away | past | the servant | poison's mantle | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | |||
| 6 | chase away | past | the servant not said here | poison | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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