The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 74

In an instant the baby stretched out its little hands and began to play a tune so beautiful that even the prince forgot his sorrows as he listened.

Who acts: prince · What happens: stretch out, begin, play, forget, listen, sorrow · To what, where: baby, instant, tune, sorrows

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. 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 stretched	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	nsubj:pass
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stretched	compound:prt
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hands	amod
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretched	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tune	det
16	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 play	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tune	amod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 forgot	mark
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 prince	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 forgot	nsubj
23	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beautiful	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sorrows	nmod:poss
25	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 forgot	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 listened	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 listened	nsubj
28	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forgot	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stretch out	participle · passive		the baby	a instant	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient hand=Result
2	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive		a tune		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
4	forget	past	the prince	prince's sorrows		tree rules
5	listen	past	prince			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	sorrow		prince			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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