The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 33
“Out sword from the sheath,” cried the prince, springing back with a cry.
Who acts: sword · What happens: cry, spring back · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sword | punct |
| 2 | Out | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 3 sword | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sheath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sheath | det |
| 6 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sword | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sword | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sword | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 springing | punct |
| 13 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 springing | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cry | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cry | det |
| 17 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 springing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Out's sword from the sheath | the prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spring back | gerund | Out's sword from the sheath not said here | with a cry | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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