The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 29
The Prince caught it up, and again gave it three wounds.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: catch up, give · To what, where: beast
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | 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 caught | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 caught | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 wounds | nummod |
| 12 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | the Prince | beast | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Prince not said here | beast | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient wound=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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