The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 42
Quick as lightning the prince was on her track, but this time it was with no wish to kill or even wound the beautiful creature.
Who acts: prince, time · What happens: be, kill, wound · To what, where: track, beautiful creature
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, time), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lightning | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Quick | fixed |
| 3 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 track | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 track | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 track | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 track | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 track | nmod:poss |
| 9 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wish | cop |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wish | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 wish | det |
| 18 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 track | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 kill | mark |
| 20 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | acl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 wound | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 wound | advmod |
| 23 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kill | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 creature | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 creature | amod |
| 26 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wound | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 track | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | animal's track | quick lightning | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | this time | with no wish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wound | infinitive | the prince not said here | the beautiful creature | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer |
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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