The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 3
With his hand on the hilt of his sword he demanded Lizina in so terrific a voice that the mother hastened to the well to draw her prisoner out.
Who acts: prince · What happens: demand, hasten, draw out · To what, where: Lizina, terrific voice, mother, well, prisoner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 demanded | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hilt | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hilt | det |
| 6 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sword | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hilt | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 demanded | nsubj |
| 11 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 demanded | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 terrific | advmod |
| 15 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 demanded | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 mother | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mother | det |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voice | conj |
| 21 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 mother | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 well | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 well | det |
| 24 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hastened | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 draw | mark |
| 26 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 hastened | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 28 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 draw | obj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 draw | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | prince | Lizina | a terrific voice and the mother | with prince's hand on the hilt of prince's sword | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lizina=Precondition | ||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the mother not said here | the well | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to well=Destination | ||||
| 3 | draw out | to-infinitive | Lizina's prisoner | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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