The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 63
Quick as thought the prince pulled out the golden flask, and sprinkled some drops of the water over the queen.
Who acts: prince · What happens: think, pull out, sprinkle · To what, where: prince, golden flask, drops
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 (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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Quick | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 prince | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 pulled | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flask | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flask | amod |
| 10 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sprinkled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sprinkled | cc |
| 13 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 drops | det |
| 15 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sprinkled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drops | nmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 queen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 queen | det |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprinkled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the prince | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pull out | participle | the prince not said here | the golden flask | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | some drops of the water | over the queen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over queen=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.
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