The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 87
In an instant they had seized upon Death and held him tight, till the prince should have time to reach the Land of Immortality.
Who acts: prince · What happens: seize, hold, have, reach · To what, where: eagles, instant, prince, Land
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | aux |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 Death | case |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obj |
| 12 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 10 held | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seized | conj |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 time | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Land | det |
| 23 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reach | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Immortality | case |
| 25 | Immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Land | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · perfect · passive | eagles = eagle | a instant | upon Death | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past | prince | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | should | the prince | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the Land of Immortality | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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