The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 36
As the prince was despicable in his eyes, he tossed aside his club and rushed to grip him with his hands.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, toss, rush, grip · To what, where: eyes, prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 despicable | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despicable | cop |
| 5 | despicable | despicable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 despicable | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tossed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tossed | nsubj |
| 11 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despicable | parataxis |
| 12 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 14 club | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 club | nmod:poss |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tossed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushed | cc |
| 16 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tossed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 grip | mark |
| 18 | grip | grip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rushed | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grip | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grip | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 despicable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | prince's eyes | as the prince; despicable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | toss | past | prince | aside prince's club | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | prince not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | grip | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince | with prince's hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
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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