The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 60
But how could the prince give it her when there was no water at hand?
Who acts: prince · What happens: give, be · To what, where: glass, hand, water
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 give | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 water | nmod:poss |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 was | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 water | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | could | the prince | glass | hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at hand=Asset | |||
| 2 | is a | past | girl's water | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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