The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 92
But it took a long time, and on the third morning, just as she was putting the last stitches into the last flower the prince came in.
Who acts: it, Lineik, prince · What happens: take, put, come in · To what, where: last stitches, last flower
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Lineik, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 morning | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 morning | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 putting | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 putting | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 putting | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 putting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 putting | aux |
| 18 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stitches | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stitches | amod |
| 21 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 putting | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 flower | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flower | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flower | amod |
| 25 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 putting | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flower | acl:relcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 came | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | morning; time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | past · progressive | Lineik | the last stitches | the last flower | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stitch=Goal | |||
| 3 | come in | past | the prince | the last flower not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=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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