The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 123
And she flung the boy a purse of gold.
Who acts: Highness · What happens: fling · To what, where: purse, boy
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Highness), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 flung | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 purse | det |
| 7 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 purse | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Highness | a purse of gold | the boy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Destination purse=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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