The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 96

The young prince got into the carriage, and while they were on the way he opened the snuff-box, and out walked Seven Inches, and stood on his thigh.

Who acts: young prince, idlers, prince · What happens: get, be, open, walk, stand · To what, where: carriage, way, snuff box, Seven Inches, thigh

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 (young prince, idlers, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prince	amod
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 carriage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carriage	det
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 way	cc
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 way	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 way	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 box	det
19	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 box	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 snuff	punct
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 walked	cc
24	out	out	ADV	_	25 walked	advmod
25	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
26	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Inches	nummod
27	Inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 walked	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stood	cc
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 walked	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 thigh	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 thigh	nmod:poss
33	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the young prince		the carriage		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination
2	is	past	idlers = idler		the way		tree rules
3	open	past	prince	the snuff box			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
4	walk	past	the young prince not said here	Seven Inches		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inch=Trajectory
5	stand	past	the young prince not said here		prince's thigh		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thigh=Location

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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