The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 70
The prince saw his chance, and before his foe could shut his mouth again had plunged his sword far down his adversary's throat.
Who acts: prince · What happens: see, shut, plunge, chance · To what, where: chance, mouth, sword
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shut | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shut | cc |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 foe | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 shut | aux |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 plunged | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 plunged | aux |
| 17 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 shut | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plunged | obj |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 throat | advmod |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 throat | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 adversary | nmod:poss |
| 23 | adversary | adversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 adversary | case |
| 25 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plunged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the prince | prince's chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shut | could | the prince not said here | prince's mouth | before prince's foe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | |||
| 3 | plunge | past · perfect | the prince not said here | prince's sword | again | down prince's adversary's throat | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | ||
| 4 | chance | prince | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/70/