The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 11
So the King, without losing a moment, set his foot upon it heavily.
Who acts: King · What happens: lose, set · To what, where: foot, tail
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 (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 losing | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 losing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 losing | punct |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 losing | mark |
| 6 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 losing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 losing | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 losing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | the King | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the King not said here | king's foot | tail | heavily property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon it=Destination |
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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