The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 64
There, upon a heap of soft cushions, sat his lovely Princess.
What happens: sit · To what, where: lovely Princess, heap
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 sat | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 heap | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heap | det |
| 5 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cushions | case |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cushions | amod |
| 8 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heap | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heap | punct |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Princess | amod |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | King's lovely Princess | a heap of soft cushions; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme upon heap=Location |
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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