The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 68
Then it was noticed that the drinking-horn was empty and the sword gone, while the princess reported that half of her handkerchief and one of her slippers had been taken away.
Who acts: drinking horn, sword, princess · What happens: notice, be, go, report, take away · To what, where: body, half
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drinking horn, sword, princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | aux:pass |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 empty | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horn | det |
| 7 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horn | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 drinking | punct |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 empty | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 empty | cop |
| 11 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noticed | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gone | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sword | det |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 empty | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reported | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 reported | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reported | nsubj |
| 20 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 taken | mark |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 33 taken | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 handkerchief | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 25 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 half | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 taken | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 slippers | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taken | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 taken | aux:pass |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 reported | ccomp |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 taken | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · passive | body | then | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the drinking horn | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | participle | the sword | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | report | past | the princess | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take away | past · perfect · passive | half of half's handkerchief | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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