The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 83
When all were ready and expectant, the prince with his dagger forced open the lid and flung it back, and there lay, living and breathing, the most lovely maiden he had ever seen in his life.
Who acts: all, prince · What happens: be, force, open, fling back, lay, live · To what, where: lid, lovely maiden, life
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (all, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 expectant | cc |
| 6 | expectant | expectant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forced | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forced | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dagger | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prince | nmod |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lid | det |
| 16 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flung | cc |
| 18 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forced | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flung | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 flung | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lay | cc |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lay | advmod |
| 24 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 living | punct |
| 26 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 lay | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 breathing | cc |
| 28 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 living | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 maiden | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 maiden | det |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 lovely | advmod |
| 32 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 maiden | amod |
| 33 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lay | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seen | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 seen | aux |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 seen | advmod |
| 37 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 life | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seen | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | force | past | the prince with prince's dagger | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | the prince with prince's dagger not said here | the lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fling back | past | the prince with prince's dagger not said here | lid | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | the prince with prince's dagger not said here | the lovely maiden | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | live | gerund | the prince with prince's dagger not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | breathe | gerund | the prince with prince's dagger not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | see | past · perfect | prince | the lovely maiden not said here | prince's life | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
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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