The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 42

The prince cut open its body and found the sparrow inside, as the old woman had said.

Who acts: prince, old woman · What happens: cut, find, say · To what, where: body, sparrow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, old woman), 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 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cut	xcomp
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrow	det
10	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	aux
18	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the prince	air's body	open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Product
2	find	past	the prince not said here	the sparrow	inside property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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