The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 109
And the prince had pity, and let fall his arrow and unstrung his bow.
Who acts: prince · What happens: have, let, fall, unstring · To what, where: pity, arrow, bow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fall | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unstrung | cc |
| 13 | unstrung | unstring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fall | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unstrung | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the prince | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | the prince not said here | prince's arrow | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient arrow=Result | ||||
| 4 | unstring | past | the prince not said here | prince's bow | tree rules |
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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