The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 41
There the Prince held Graciosa’s hand in his, and made her put the tip of her little finger into her mouth, and look towards the town, and immediately she saw the wicked Queen go to the King, and heard her say to him, ‘That miserable Princess is dead, and no great loss either.
Who acts: Prince, Graciosa, wicked Queen, Queen, miserable Princess · What happens: hold, make, put, look, see, go · To what, where: hand, Graciosa, tip, mouth, Queen, crystal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Graciosa, wicked Queen, Queen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 held | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Graciosa | case |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 his | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 held | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tip | det |
| 16 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 finger | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 finger | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 finger | amod |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tip | nmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 look | cc |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | conj |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 saw | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 saw | cc |
| 32 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 34 saw | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Queen | det |
| 36 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Queen | amod |
| 37 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 go | nsubj |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 saw | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 King | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 King | det |
| 41 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 go | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 heard | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 heard | cc |
| 44 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 saw | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 heard | obj |
| 46 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 heard | xcomp |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 say | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 dead | punct |
| 50 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 55 dead | punct |
| 51 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 Princess | det |
| 52 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 Princess | amod |
| 53 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dead | nsubj |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 dead | cop |
| 55 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 heard | parataxis |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 loss | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 loss | cc |
| 58 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 60 loss | det |
| 59 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 loss | amod |
| 60 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dead | conj |
| 61 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 60 loss | advmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Prince | Graciosa's hand | there | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | past | the Prince not said here | Graciosa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Graciosa not said here | the tip of Graciosa's little finger | Graciosa's mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tip=Goal | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | Graciosa not said here | towards the town | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards town=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Graciosa | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go | present | the wicked Queen | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | hear | past | Graciosa not said here | Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Queen not said here | crystal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | is | present | that miserable Princess | dead property | tree rules |
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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