The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 64
The prince gave her his stepmother’s message and the second largest ring.
Who acts: prince · What happens: give · To what, where: message, lie
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 message | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 stepmother | case |
| 8 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ring | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 ring | amod |
| 12 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 ring | amod |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 message | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the prince | Prince's stepmother's message and the second largest ring | lie | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient message=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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