The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 28
In an instant the prince had seized her hand, and though she made a frightened struggle to reach the water--for she in her turn had had a spell laid upon her--he held her fast.
Who acts: girl, spell, prince · What happens: seize, make, reach, have, lay, hold · To what, where: prince, instant, frightened struggle, water, spell, turn
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, spell, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | aux |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 struggle | det |
| 16 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 struggle | amod |
| 17 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 reach | mark |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 struggle | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 turn | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 turn | nmod:poss |
| 27 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obl |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 had | aux |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 made | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 spell | det |
| 31 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 spell | acl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 laid | obj |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 held | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 held | nsubj |
| 37 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 held | obj |
| 39 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 held | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · perfect · passive | the prince | a instant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | girl | a frightened struggle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Product | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past · perfect | girl | a spell | girl's turn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient | |||
| 5 | lay | participle | a spell not said here | girl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Result | ||||
| 6 | hold | past | prince | girl | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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