The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 66
No sooner had he placed it in the Princess’s mouth than she opened her lovely eyes, and, looking up into the happy youth’s face, she kissed him tenderly, thanked him for freeing her from her magic sleep, and promised to be his wife.
Who acts: dwarf, Princess · What happens: place, open, look up, kiss, thank, free · To what, where: heart, mouth, lovely eyes, dwarf, Princess, magic sleep
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, Princess), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 placed | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 placed | nsubj |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 placed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 opened | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looking | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 placed | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 looking | compound:prt |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 youth | amod |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 youth | case |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kissed | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kissed | nsubj |
| 31 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kissed | obj |
| 33 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kissed | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thanked | punct |
| 35 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thanked | obj |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 freeing | mark |
| 38 | freeing | free | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 thanked | advcl |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 freeing | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 sleep | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 42 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sleep | amod |
| 43 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 freeing | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 promised | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 promised | cc |
| 46 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 wife | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 wife | cop |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 wife | nmod:poss |
| 50 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 promised | xcomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | dwarf | heart | the Princess's mouth | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mouth=Destination | ||
| 2 | open | past | Princess | Princess's lovely eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | dwarf not said here | into the happy youth's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Princess | dwarf | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | past | dwarf not said here | dwarf | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | free | gerund | dwarf not said here | Princess | Princess's magic sleep | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source | |||
| 7 | promise speech: promise | past | dwarf not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | dwarf not said here | dwarf's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | sleep | Princess | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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