The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 118
So Seven Inches vanished; and when the carriage door was opened in the yard, out walks the prince as fine as hands could make him, and the first thing he did was to run over to his bride and embrace her.
Who acts: Seven Inches, hands, thing, first thing · What happens: vanish, open, walk, make, do, run over · To what, where: carriage door, prince, first thing, bride
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven Inches, hands, thing, first thing), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 vanished | advmod |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Inches | nummod |
| 3 | Inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 opened | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | compound |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux:pass |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 vanished | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walks | punct |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 walks | advmod |
| 18 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walks | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fine | advmod |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 make | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fine | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 run | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 run | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 thing | det |
| 31 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 thing | amod |
| 32 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 run | nsubj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 did | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thing | acl:relcl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 run | aux |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 run | mark |
| 37 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 walks | conj |
| 38 | over | over | ADV | _ | 37 run | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 bride | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 bride | nmod:poss |
| 41 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 run | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 embrace | cc |
| 43 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 run | conj |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 embrace | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | Seven Inches | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the carriage door | in the yard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in yard=Location | ||||
| 3 | walk | present | the prince | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | could | hands | prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | ||||
| 5 | do | past | thing | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | run over | past | the first thing | to thing's bride result; over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bride=Result | ||||
| 7 | embrace | infinitive | the first thing not said here | bride | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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