The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 77
The princess made no reply, but smiled sweetly, and slipping a golden ring from her finger she broke it in two and held half out silently to the prince, while the other half she put in her own pocket.
Who acts: princess, other half · What happens: make, smile, slip, break, hold out, put · To what, where: reply, golden ring, ring, two, half, own pocket
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, other half), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 reply | det |
| 5 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smiled | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 smiled | cc |
| 8 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 9 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 8 smiled | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 broke | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 broke | cc |
| 12 | slipping | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 broke | csubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ring | amod |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipping | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 finger | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipping | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 broke | nsubj |
| 20 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 broke | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 broke | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 broke | conj |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 held | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 held | compound:prt |
| 28 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 31 prince | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 prince | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 put | punct |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 put | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 half | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 half | amod |
| 36 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 38 put | nsubj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 put | nsubj |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 held | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 pocket | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pocket | amod |
| 42 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obl | ||
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the princess | no reply | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | sweetly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | slip | gerund | a golden ring | from princess's finger | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient from finger=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | break | past | princess | ring | two | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 5 | hold out | past | princess not said here | half | to the prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | |||
| 6 | put | past | the other half | princess's own pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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