The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 44
When the Princess heard the bear growling so loud that night, she made sure he was roaring with delight as he worried the tailor.
Who acts: Princess, bear · What happens: hear, growl, make, roar, worry · To what, where: bear, tailor
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, bear), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 loud | advmod |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 7 growling | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 growling | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 roaring | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 roaring | aux |
| 18 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 made | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 delight | case |
| 20 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roaring | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 worried | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 worried | nsubj |
| 23 | worried | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 roaring | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tailor | det |
| 25 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 worried | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Princess | the bear | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | growl | gerund | the Princess not said here | night | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | past | Princess | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | roar | past · progressive | bear | with delight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | worry | past | bear | the tailor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tailor=Experiencer |
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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