The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 60
Labakan drew it gently out, and hesitated for a moment whether or not to plunge it into the heart of the sleeping prince.
Who acts: Labakan · What happens: draw, hesitate, not plunge · To what, where: dagger, heart
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan), 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 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | obj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 out | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hesitated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hesitated | cc |
| 8 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drew | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hesitated | obl |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 plunge | mark |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 whether | fixed |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 plunge | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 plunge | mark |
| 16 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hesitated | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 plunge | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plunge | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 prince | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 23 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prince | compound |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Labakan | dagger | out property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | hesitate | participle | Labakan not said here | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not plunge | to-infinitive | Labakan not said here | dagger | the heart of the sleeping prince | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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