English-Little-Prince-SNACS

The Little Prince in English hand-annotated with prepositional supersenses (SNACS, guidelines v2.6)

Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was originally translated into English in 1943 by Katherine Woods. Our dataset uses this translation and follows the sentence segmentation of the AMR project.

The text consists of 21,381 words, 1,562 sentences, and 27 chapters.

Each sentence is annotated with: syntactic parses (Universal Dependencies); multiword expressions involving prepositions/possessives; and supersense labels for prepositional/possessive expressions. The syntactic parses are automatic, produced by the Stanza parser (a few were hand-corrected).

The canonical data file is in the CoNLL-U-Lex format. JSON-converted data files are included for easy programmatic access. The gov_obj annotations are generated via the govobj.py script in the struesle repo.

Notes about the data:

• en_lpp_full.conllulex and en_lpp_full_govobj.json are the most up to date files
• older versions of the data can be found in the legacy folder
• The # text = ... field is derived from tokens and does not reflect original whitespace
• Syntactic parses, POS tags, morphological features, and lemmas are from Stanza version 1.10.1

Changelog

• Version 1.0 (2025-07-17):

  • Updated parses with latest version of Stanza (1.10.1)
  • Added Chapters 1, 4, and 5 with gold SNACS annotations
  • Updated all chapters to SNACS guidelines v2.6
  • Corrected some gold MWE spans from all chapters
  • Added latest conllulex file (en_lpp_full.conllulex)
  • Added latest json file with govobj annotations (en_lpp_full_govobj.json)
  • Moved older files into legacy folder
  • In earlier versions of the raw data, the last sentence of Chapter 1 (Sentence 35) was inadvertently omitted. It is now included and reflected in the new token count (21381).
    • The sentence has no SNACS targets, so its addition has no effect on supersense statistics. However, the overall token count for the LPP corpus on Xposition may need to be updated to account for this sentence.

• Version 0.9 (2021-12-12):

  • Release all LPP chapters except 1, 4, and 5 in latest version (SNACS v2.5)
  • Included latest file with chapters 1, 4, and 5 (prince_en_1_4_5.conllulex) in earlier SNACS version.
  • Moved older files to legacy folder