The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 50

The Prince did not see her, and thinking it was a dog, he gave her such a push with his foot that her arm was broken.

Who acts: Prince, maiden · What happens: not see, think, be, give, break · To what, where: girl, dog, push, arm · 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, maiden), 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	5 see	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 gave	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dog	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dog	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinking	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thinking	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 push	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 push	det
20	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 foot	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 push	nmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 broken	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broken	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 broken	aux:pass
28	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 gave	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	the Prince	girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	gerund	Prince not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	maiden	a dog			tree rules
4	give	past	Prince	such push	girl	with Prince's foot	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme
5	break	past · passive		girl's arm			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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