The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 31
Swiftly he drew near to the bank, and the prince sprang to meet him, and they grasped each other round the body and fought till it was noon.
Who acts: dragon, prince, greyhounds, body · What happens: draw, spring, meet, grasp, fight, be · To what, where: bank, dragon, each
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, prince, greyhounds, body), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sprang | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grasped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grasped | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grasped | nsubj |
| 19 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 20 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 19 grasped | obj |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 each | fixed |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 body | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 body | det |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grasped | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fought | cc |
| 26 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grasped | conj |
| 27 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 noon | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 noon | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 noon | cop |
| 30 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fought | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | dragon | the bank | near, swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bank=Destination | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | dragon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | grasp | past | greyhounds = greyhound | each | round the body | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | fight | past | greyhounds = greyhound not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | body | till noon | 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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