The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 39

The prince drew them out of his pocket, and silently handed them to the giant, who washed them well, and then put them back in the prince’s head.

Who acts: prince · What happens: draw, hand, wash, put back · To what, where: eyes, pocket, head

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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), 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 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 handed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 handed	cc
11	silently	silently	ADV	_	12 handed	advmod
12	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 handed	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 giant	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 handed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 washed	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 washed	nsubj
19	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 handed	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 washed	obj
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 washed	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 put	advmod
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drew	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 head	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 prince	det
30	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 head	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 prince	case
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the prince	eyes = eye	prince's pocket			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
2	hand	past	the prince not said here	eyes = eye			to the giant; silently property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to giant=Destination
3	wash	past		eyes = eye			well property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	put back	infinitive	the prince not said here	eyes = eye	the prince's head	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in head=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/39/