The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 83
The Prince laid it upon the ground, and it got up at once and began to dance.
Who acts: Prince, kingdom · What happens: lay, get up, begin, dance · To what, where: kingdom, ground
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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, kingdom), 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 | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 got | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 got | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 dance | mark |
| 18 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the Prince | kingdom | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | get up | past | kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | kingdom not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dance | to-infinitive | kingdom not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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