The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 29
The Princess was quite overcome with terror and joy, and fell fainting at the feet of her deliverer.
What happens: overcome, fall, faint · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 overcome | advmod |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 joy | cc |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terror | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | conj |
| 13 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feet | det |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fainting | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 deliverer | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 19 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feet | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | the Princess | with terror and joy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | faint | gerund | at the feet of Princess's deliverer | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at foot=Stimulus |
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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