The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 30
The prince fitted an arrow into his bow and took his aim, but, before he could let fly, another ray of light dazzled him; so brilliant was it, that his bow dropped, and he covered his face with his hands.
Who acts: prince, ray, bow · What happens: fit, take, let, dazzle, be, drop · To what, where: arrow, bow, aim, fly, light, face
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, ray, bow), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | nsubj |
| 3 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 arrow | det |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 bow | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fitted | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 aim | nmod:poss |
| 12 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | parataxis |
| 20 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ray | punct |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 ray | det |
| 23 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dazzled | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 light | case |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ray | nmod |
| 26 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dazzled | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 brilliant | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 brilliant | advmod |
| 30 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fitted | parataxis |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 it | cop |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brilliant | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dropped | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 dropped | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 bow | nmod:poss |
| 36 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dropped | nsubj |
| 37 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fitted | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 covered | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 covered | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 covered | nsubj |
| 41 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dropped | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 face | nmod:poss |
| 43 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 covered | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 hands | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hands | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 covered | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | the prince | a arrow | prince's bow | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into bow=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | the prince not said here | prince's aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | could | prince | fly | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dazzle | past | another ray of light | fly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | light | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | drop | past | prince's bow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | cover | past | bow | prince's face | with prince's hands | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with hand=Theme | |||
| 8 | aim | prince | nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | ray | light | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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