The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 77

Then he just stroked the skein with his wand, and all the broken threads joined themselves together, and the whole skein wound itself smoothly off in the most surprising manner, and the Prince, turning to Graciosa, asked if there was nothing else that she wished him to do for her, and if the time would never come when she would wish for him for his own sake.

Who acts: Prince, broken threads, nothing, Graciosa, time · What happens: stroke, break, join, turn, ask, be · To what, where: skein, keys, Graciosa, Prince

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, broken threads, nothing, Graciosa), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stroked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stroked	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stroked	advmod
4	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skein	det
6	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stroked	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 wand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wand	nmod:poss
9	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skein	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 joined	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 joined	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 threads	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 threads	det
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 threads	amod
15	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 joined	nsubj
16	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stroked	conj
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 joined	obj
18	together	together	ADV	_	16 joined	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 off	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 off	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wound	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wound	amod
23	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wound	compound
24	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 off	nsubj
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	24 wound	nmod:unmarked
26	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	27 off	advmod
27	off	off	ADV	_	4 stroked	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 manner	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 manner	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 surprising	advmod
31	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 manner	amod
32	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 off	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Prince	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Prince	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Prince	det
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stroked	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turning	punct
38	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stroked	advcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Graciosa	case
40	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 turning	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 asked	punct
42	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stroked	conj
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 was	mark
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 asked	ccomp
46	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	45 was	nsubj
47	else	else	ADV	_	46 nothing	advmod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 wished	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wished	nsubj
50	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 nothing	acl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wished	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 do	mark
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 wished	xcomp
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 her	case
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 do	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 come	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 come	cc
58	if	if	SCONJ	_	63 come	mark
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 time	det
60	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 come	nsubj
61	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 come	aux
62	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	63 come	advmod
63	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stroked	parataxis
64	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	67 wish	advmod
65	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 wish	nsubj
66	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 wish	aux
67	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 come	conj
68	for	for	ADP	_	69 him	case
69	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 wish	obl
70	for	for	ADP	_	73 sake	case
71	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 sake	nmod:poss
72	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 sake	amod
73	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 wish	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stroked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	past	Prince	the skein			then	with Prince's wand; the Prince obl	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skein=Experiencer with wand=Instrument
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	join	past	all broken threads	keys = key				together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
4	turn	gerund	Prince not said here		Graciosa				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to graciosa=Result
5	ask speech: ask	past	Prince not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be a condition, not said to happen	past	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wish	past	Graciosa	Prince					tree rules
8	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here					for Graciosa	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not come a condition, not said to happen	would	the time						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	wish	would	Graciosa					for Prince; for Prince's own sake	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=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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