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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 12

And as he spoke he put his hand into his breast, and seizing the hair wished himself a bee, and flew straight into the pocket of the princess.

Who acts: water, seizing · What happens: speak, put, seize, wish, fly · To what, where: hand, breast, hair, water, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, seizing), 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

ccmarknsubjadvclnsubjnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctcccsubjdetobjconjobjdetobjpunctccadvcladvmodcasedetobjcasedetnmodpunctrootAndCCONJasSCONJhePRONspokeVERBhePRONputVERBhisPRONhandNOUNintoADPhisPRONbreastNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJseizingVERBtheDEThairNOUNwishedVERBhimselfPRONaDETbeeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJflewVERBstraightADVintoADPtheDETpocketNOUNofADPtheDETprincessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_6 putcc
2asasSCONJ_4 spokemark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 spokensubj
4spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 putadvcl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 putnsubj
6putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 handnmod:poss
8handhandNOUNNumber=Sing6 putobj
9intointoADP_11 breastcase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 breastnmod:poss
11breastbreastNOUNNumber=Sing6 putobl
12,,PUNCT_17 wishedpunct
13andandCCONJ_17 wishedcc
14seizingseizeVERBVerbForm=Ger17 wishedcsubj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 hairdet
16hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing14 seizingobj
17wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 putconj
18himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes17 wishedobj
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 beedet
20beebeeNOUNNumber=Sing17 wishedobj
21,,PUNCT_23 flewpunct
22andandCCONJ_23 flewcc
23flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 wishedadvcl
24straightstraightADV_27 pocketadvmod
25intointoADP_27 pocketcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 pocketdet
27pocketpocketNOUNNumber=Sing23 flewobj
28ofofADP_30 princesscase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 princessdet
30princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing27 pocketnmod
31..PUNCT_6 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: otherpastwatervn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2putpastwaterwater's handwater's breastvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
3seizegerundthe hairvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4wishpastseizingwatertree rules
5flypastseizing not said herethe pocket of the princessvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pocket=Theme

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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