The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 25
Then the prince stopped again, and flung the second knife behind him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: stop, fling · To what, where: second knife
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 (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 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 stopped | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flung | cc |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 knife | amod |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flung | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flung | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the prince | then; again | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | the prince not said here | the second knife | behind prince | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knife=Theme behind he=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 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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