The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 103

In an instant the crystal prison flew into a thousand splinters, and the old Fairy, taking the Dear Little Princess by the hand, said to the Prince:

Who acts: crystal prison · What happens: fly, take, say · To what, where: instant, Dear Little Princess, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crystal prison), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prison	det
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prison	amod
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 splinters	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thousand	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 splinters	nummod
11	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Fairy	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Fairy	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fairy	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Fairy	amod
16	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
18	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flew	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
20	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Princess	amod
21	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Princess	amod
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hand	det
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Prince	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Prince	det
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the crystal prison		a instant	into thousand splinters	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
2	take	gerund	the crystal prison not said here	the Dear Little Princess		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the crystal prison not said here	the Prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient

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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