The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 124
Not only in their own court, but princes from afar, who were constantly arriving, attracted by the reports which were spread abroad; but these lovely girls, the first Maids of Honour, were as discreet as they were beautiful, and favoured no one.
Who acts: princes, lovely girls, charms · What happens: arrive, attract, spread, be, favour · To what, where: reports, one
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 (princes, lovely girls, charms), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 court | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 court | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 court | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 court | amod |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 princes | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 princes | cc |
| 9 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 court | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 afar | case |
| 11 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arriving | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 arriving | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arriving | aux |
| 15 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 16 arriving | advmod |
| 16 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 princes | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attracted | punct |
| 18 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arriving | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 reports | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reports | det |
| 21 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 attracted | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spread | aux:pass |
| 24 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 reports | acl:relcl |
| 25 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 24 spread | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 discreet | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 discreet | cc |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 girls | det |
| 29 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 girls | amod |
| 30 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 discreet | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Maids | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Maids | det |
| 33 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 Maids | amod |
| 34 | Maids | Maid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 girls | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Honour | case |
| 36 | Honour | Honour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Maids | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 girls | punct |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 discreet | cop |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 discreet | advmod |
| 40 | discreet | discreet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 court | conj |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 beautiful | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 beautiful | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 beautiful | cop |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 discreet | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 favoured | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 favoured | cc |
| 47 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 discreet | conj |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 one | det |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 favoured | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 court | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · progressive | princes from afar | constantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attract | participle | princes from afar not said here | by the reports | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spread | past · passive | the reports | abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this lovely girls the first Maids of Honour | discreet property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | charms = charm | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | favour | past | this lovely girls the first Maids of Honour not said here | no one | tree rules |
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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