The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 15

“I will just try what this is like too,” said the Prince, thrusting another lock of his hair into it, and it came out silvered over.

Who acts: Prince, this · What happens: try, be, say, thrust, silver over · To what, where: lock, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, this), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 try	advmod
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 try	obj
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 too	case
10	too	too	ADV	_	5 try	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrusting	punct
17	thrusting	thrust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 lock	det
19	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrusting	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 hair	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hair	nmod:poss
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lock	nmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thrusting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 silvered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 silvered	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 silvered	nsubj:pass
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 silvered	aux
29	out	out	ADV	_	30 silvered	advmod
30	silvered	silver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	conj
31	over	over	ADV	_	30 silvered	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	future	the Prince = prince				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	this				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thrust	gerund	the Prince not said here	another lock of Prince's hair	hair		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
5	silver over	past · passive		lock		out, over property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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