The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 111
The prince put it on his finger, and thanking her heartily, went his way.
Who acts: prince · What happens: put, thank, go · To what, where: ring, finger, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. 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 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 finger | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thanking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thanking | cc |
| 10 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 put | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thanking | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the prince | ring | Prince's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the prince not said here | heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the prince not said here | Prince's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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