The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 64
When the King’s daughter saw Jack my Hedgehog, she was a good deal startled, for he certainly was very peculiar looking; but after all she considered that she had given her word and it couldn’t be helped.
Who acts: daughter, King · What happens: see, be, look, consider, give, not help · To what, where: Jack, word, deal
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, King), 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 | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 startled | advcl |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 startled | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 startled | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 startled | nsubj |
| 16 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 looking | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looking | nsubj |
| 20 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 24 looking | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 looking | aux |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 peculiar | advmod |
| 23 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 looking | compound |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 startled | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 considered | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 considered | cc |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 considered | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 considered | nsubj |
| 30 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 startled | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 given | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 given | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 considered | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 word | nmod:poss |
| 36 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 helped | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 helped | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 helped | aux |
| 40 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 helped | advmod |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 helped | aux:pass |
| 42 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 given | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King's daughter | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | daughter | startle property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | King | certainly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | consider | past | daughter | after all | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect | daughter | daughter's word | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not help | could · passive | deal | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 7 | word | daughter | nom word «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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