The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 72
But as soon as the water from the golden flask touched him he yawned and stretched himself, and slowly rose to his feet.
Who acts: prince · What happens: touch, yawn, stretch, rise · To what, where: prince, feet
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 touched | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 touched | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touched | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 flask | case |
| 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 water | nmod |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touched | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 yawned | nsubj |
| 14 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 touched | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretched | cc |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 yawned | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 stretched | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rose | cc |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 21 rose | advmod |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 touched | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rose | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | prince | as the water from the golden flask; soon property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | yawn | past | prince | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stretch | past | prince not said here | prince | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | prince's feet | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location |
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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