The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 36
Then the prince turned with a shout of triumph, and the crocodile sulkily plunged into the river.
Who acts: prince · What happens: turn, plunge, shout · To what, where: crocodile, river, triumph
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 shout | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shout | det |
| 7 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 triumph | case |
| 9 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shout | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plunged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plunged | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crocodile | det |
| 13 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plunged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | sulkily | sulkily | ADV | _ | 15 plunged | advmod |
| 15 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 turned | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plunged | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the prince | then | with a shout of triumph | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | plunge | participle · passive | the crocodile | the river | sulkily property | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | shout | triumph | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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