The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 33
But while the Princess was driving over a bridge the carriage suddenly stood still, and the coachman turned round to her and said, ‘Your deliverer has gone, and doesn’t thank you for your gratitude.
Who acts: Princess, coachman, deliverer · What happens: drive, stand, turn round, say, ‘, go · To what, where: carriage, bridge, Princess, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Princess, coachman, deliverer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 driving | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 driving | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driving | aux |
| 6 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | advcl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driving | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 carriage | det |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driving | obj |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coachman | det |
| 18 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ‘ | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | xcomp |
| 27 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 28 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gone | aux |
| 30 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 ‘ | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thank | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 thank | cc |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 thank | aux |
| 34 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 thank | aux |
| 35 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stood | advcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 thank | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 gratitude | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 39 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thank | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | the Princess | the carriage | a bridge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme over bridge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stand | past | still | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn round | past | the coachman | Princess | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the coachman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | ‘ | infinitive | the coachman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | present · perfect | Your deliverer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not thank speech: thank | present · do-support | you | for your gratitude | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gratitude=Attribute |
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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