The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 37
Instantly his ring pricked him sharply, as if it had been a pin.
Who acts: ring · What happens: prick, be · To what, where: Darling, pin
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 pricked | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ring | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | nsubj |
| 4 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pricked | obj |
| 6 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 4 pricked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pin | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 pin | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 pin | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pin | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pin | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 pin | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pin | det |
| 14 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pricked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | past | Darling's ring | Darling | instantly, sharply property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | ring | a pin | tree rules |
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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