The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 117
The Queen hastily opened the baskets, and found in each a lovely baby-girl, about the same age as the little Princess for whom she sorrowed so deeply.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: open, find, sorrow · To what, where: baskets
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baskets | det |
| 6 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 girl | det |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 baby | punct |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 age | punct |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 age | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 age | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 age | amod |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Princess | amod |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 age | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 Princess | nmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sorrowed | nsubj |
| 29 | sorrowed | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 deeply | advmod |
| 31 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 29 sorrowed | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Queen | the baskets | hastily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location basket=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | participle | the Queen not said here | about the same age as the little Princess for the same age as the little Princess for the same age | in each lovely baby girl | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | sorrow | past | Queen | deeply property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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