The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 32

This time the prince's hand nearly opened of itself, but with a strong effort he kept his fingers shut, and drawing his sword cut off its head, when the spell was broken, and the girl stood before him as he had seen her first, the wreath upon her head and the birds singing for joy.

Who acts: prince, girl, birds · What happens: open, keep, draw, cut off, break, stand · To what, where: fingers, sword, spell, girl

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 (prince, girl, birds), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 prince	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 opened	advmod
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 opened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 effort	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 effort	det
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 effort	amod
16	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fingers	nmod:poss
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obj
21	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drawing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drawing	cc
24	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 kept	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sword	nmod:poss
26	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 head	amod
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 broken	punct
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 broken	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spell	det
34	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 broken	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 broken	aux:pass
36	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 drawing	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stood	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 girl	det
40	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	nsubj
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
42	before	before	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stood	obl
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 seen	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 seen	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 seen	aux
47	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 stood	advcl
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 seen	obj
49	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 seen	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 wreath	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wreath	det
52	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 seen	obl
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 head	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 head	nmod:poss
55	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 wreath	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 birds	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 birds	det
58	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 head	conj
59	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 birds	acl
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 joy	case
61	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 singing	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past			time	of hand; nearly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	prince	prince's fingers		with a strong effort; shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
3	draw	gerund	prince not said here	prince's sword		sword's cut head obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	cut off	participle					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	break	past · passive		the spell			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	stand	past	the girl		before prince		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
7	see	past · perfect	prince	girl		the wreath upon girl's head and the birds obl; first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
8	sing speech: express	gerund	the birds not said here			for joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient

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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