The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 46
But instead the prince knelt at her side, and stroked her, and bade her fear nothing, as he would take care of her.
Who acts: prince, fear, creature · What happens: kneel, stroke, take, fear · To what, where: side, creature, care
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, fear, creature), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 knelt | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 5 knelt | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knelt | nsubj |
| 5 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knelt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stroked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stroked | cc |
| 11 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knelt | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stroked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nothing | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | nsubj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fear | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | nsubj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 knelt | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knelt | parataxis |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | the prince | creature's side | instead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | |||
| 2 | stroke | past | the prince not said here | creature | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take | would | fear | care | of creature | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | fear | creature | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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