The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 55
The Princess recognized her deliverer at once, and did not need the proof of the two dragon’s teeth which he drew from his pocket.
Who acts: Princess, coachman · What happens: recognize, not need, draw, proof · To what, where: deliverer, proof, teeth, pocket
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), 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 | 3 recognized | nsubj |
| 3 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 recognized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 need | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 need | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 need | advmod |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 recognized | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 proof | det |
| 14 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 teeth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dragon | nummod |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 dragon | case |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 proof | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 drew | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drew | nsubj |
| 23 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 pocket | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 26 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drew | obl | ||
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | the Princess | Princess's deliverer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deliverer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not need | past · do-support | the Princess not said here | the proof of the two dragon's teeth | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | coachman | the two dragon's teeth | coachman's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | proof | the two dragon's teeth | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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