The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 86
Swiftly he drew the ring from his finger, and the king of the eagles, the bald-headed king, and the mist-veiled queen, hastened to his rescue.
Who acts: prince · What happens: draw, veil, hasten, rescue · To what, where: ring, finger, veiled queen, rescue
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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 king | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 eagles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eagles | det |
| 15 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 king | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 king | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 18 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 headed | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 bald | punct |
| 20 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 king | amod |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 queen | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 queen | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 25 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 veiled | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 mist | punct |
| 27 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 queen | amod |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hastened | punct |
| 30 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 queen | acl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 rescue | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 33 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hastened | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | prince | the ring | prince's finger | the king of the eagles and the headed king and the veiled queen obl; swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | veil | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the veiled queen not said here | prince's rescue | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Destination | ||||
| 4 | rescue | prince | nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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