The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 92
The prince sprang upon him and they grappled with each other and fought together till the sun was high, and it was noonday.
Who acts: prince, sun · What happens: spring, grapple, fight, be · To what, where: noonday
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sun), 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 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grappled | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grappled | nsubj |
| 8 | grappled | grapple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 grappled | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fought | cc |
| 13 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grappled | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 fought | advmod |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 high | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 high | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 high | cop |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fought | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 noonday | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 noonday | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 noonday | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 noonday | cop |
| 24 | noonday | noonday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grappled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the prince | upon Dragon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | grapple | past | Prince | with each | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with each=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | Prince not said here | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sun | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | sun | noonday | tree rules |
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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