The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 54
Strangely enough, it gave him only a slight prick for a trifling fault, but when he was really naughty it made his finger actually bleed.
Who acts: ring, prince · What happens: give, be, make, bleed · To what, where: slight prick, prince, finger
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, prince), 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 | Strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Strangely | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strangely | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 prick | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prick | det |
| 9 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prick | amod |
| 10 | prick | prick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fault | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fault | det |
| 13 | trifling | trifling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fault | compound |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prick | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 naughty | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 naughty | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 naughty | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 naughty | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 naughty | cop |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 naughty | advmod |
| 21 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 naughty | ccomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 finger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 27 bleed | advmod |
| 27 | bleed | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | ring | a slight prick for a trifling fault | prince | strangely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | prince | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | ring | prince's finger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material finger=Product | ||||
| 4 | bleed | infinitive | ring not said here | actually property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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