The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 17
When the Princess heard this she turned quite pale, and almost fainted away with fear, for the little tailor had hit the mark, and she had firmly believed that not a soul could guess it.
Who acts: Princess, soul · What happens: hear, turn, faint away, hit, believe, guess · To what, where: this, little tailor, Princess, mark
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, soul), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 pale | advmod |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turned | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fainted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fainted | cc |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 fainted | advmod |
| 13 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 fainted | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fear | case |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fainted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hit | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 hit | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tailor | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tailor | amod |
| 21 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hit | aux |
| 23 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fainted | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mark | det |
| 25 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hit | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 believed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 believed | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 believed | aux |
| 30 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 31 believed | advmod |
| 31 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 turned | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 guess | mark |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 soul | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 soul | det |
| 35 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 guess | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 guess | aux |
| 37 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 believed | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 guess | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Princess | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Princess | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | faint away | past | with fear; almost, away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hit | past · perfect · passive | the little tailor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient mark=Result | |||||
| 5 | believe | past · perfect · passive | Princess | firmly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | guess | could | a soul | mark | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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