The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 9
In the carriage sat a prince, and over his head a golden umbrella was held, to protect him from the sun’s rays.
Who acts: sun · What happens: sit, hold, protect, ray · To what, where: prince, carriage, golden umbrella, head, cutter
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 (sun), 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 carriage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 umbrella | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 umbrella | amod |
| 14 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | aux:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sat | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 protect | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 protect | mark |
| 19 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 held | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 protect | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 rays | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rays | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 sun | case |
| 25 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 protect | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a prince | the carriage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in carriage=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | a golden umbrella | cutter's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme over head=Location | ||||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | cutter | from the sun's rays | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from ray=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon 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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