The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 49
The giant bade him give the sword to the prince, who girded himself with it, and returned with all speed to the castle.
Who acts: monkey, prince · What happens: give, gird, return · To what, where: giant bade, prince, monkey
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 (monkey, 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 | 3 bade | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bade | amod |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 girded | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 girded | nsubj |
| 13 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prince | acl:relcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 girded | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 girded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 give | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 speed | det |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | monkey | the giant bade | the prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sword=Theme to prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | gird | past | the prince | monkey | with sword | tree rules | |||
| 3 | return | participle | monkey not said here | with all speed; to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
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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