More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 4
But the prince looked down and saw the slipper dripping with blood, so he rode back and put her down.
Who acts: prince, slipper · What happens: look down, see, drip, ride back, put down · To what, where: slipper, sister
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, slipper), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slipper | det |
| 9 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | dripping | drip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 slipper | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 blood | case |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dripping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 rode | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rode | nsubj |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 rode | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rode | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | the prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the prince not said here | the slipper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slipper=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drip | gerund | the slipper not said here | with blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride back | past | prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put down | infinitive | prince not said here | sister | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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