The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 33
At a signal from the princess the prince poured the water in the hole, and the moment it reached the brim the princess flung in the four-leaved plant.
Who acts: prince, moment · What happens: pour, reach, fling · To what, where: water, signal, brim, princess, leaved plant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, moment), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 signal | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 signal | det |
| 3 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signal | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | nsubj |
| 9 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hole | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 poured | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brim | det |
| 22 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 25 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 princess | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 plant | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 plant | det |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 leaved | nummod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 four | punct |
| 30 | leaved | leaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 plant | amod |
| 31 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flung | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | the prince | the water | a signal from the princess | in the hole | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||
| 2 | reach | past | the moment | the brim | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent brim=Beneficiary princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | participle | the princess not said here | the leaved plant | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in plant=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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