Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 46
The princess was not well pleased, for Tom looked a different person with fine clothes and a nice green birredh over his long curly hair; and besides, he'd got one laugh out of her.
Who acts: princess, Tom · What happens: not be, look, beside, get · To what, where: different person, one laugh
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Tom), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 looked | mark |
| 9 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clothes | amod |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 person | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 birredh | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 birredh | det |
| 19 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 birredh | amod |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 birredh | amod |
| 21 | birredh | birredh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clothes | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 hair | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hair | nmod:poss |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 25 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 26 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 birredh | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 besides | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 besides | cc |
| 29 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 got | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 got | nsubj |
| 32 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 got | aux |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 besides | ccomp |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 laugh | nummod |
| 35 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 got | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the princess | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Tom | a different person | with fine clothes and a nice green birredh over Tom's long curly hair | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Attribute | |||
| 3 | beside | present | the princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | Tom | one laugh | out princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laugh=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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