The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 39
And the prince took out his half of the ring, and the princess took out hers, and they fitted exactly.
Who acts: prince, princess, king · What happens: take out, fit · To what, where: half, panting
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 (prince, princess, king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 half | nmod:poss |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 half | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fitted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fitted | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fitted | nsubj |
| 21 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 22 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 fitted | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the prince | prince's half of the ring | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | the princess | panting | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fit | past | king | exactly property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 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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