The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 114
So the girl was fetched, and the Prince was just going to hand the ornaments to her, when the witch held him back, saying:
Who acts: Prince, witch · What happens: fetch, go, hand, hold back, say · To what, where: girl, ornaments, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, witch), 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 | _ | 5 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fetched | aux:pass |
| 5 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fetched | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hand | mark |
| 14 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ornaments | det |
| 16 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hand | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hand | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 held | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 held | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saying | punct |
| 27 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 going | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past · passive | the girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the Prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hand | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | the ornaments | girl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ornament=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 4 | hold back | past | the witch | Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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