The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 63
Prince Percinet joyfully took the hand that was given him, and, for fear the Princess should change her mind, the wedding was held at once with the greatest splendour, and Graciosa and Percinet lived happily ever after.
Who acts: Prince, fear, Graciosa, Princess · What happens: take, give, change, hold, live, mind · To what, where: hand, Prince, mind, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, fear, Graciosa, Princess), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hand | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 change | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 change | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | conj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 change | aux |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | parataxis |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 held | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wedding | det |
| 24 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 held | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 held | aux:pass |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 change | advcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 held | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 splendour | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 splendour | det |
| 31 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 splendour | amod |
| 32 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 held | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lived | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lived | cc |
| 35 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 lived | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Percinet | cc |
| 37 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Graciosa | conj |
| 38 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 39 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 38 lived | advmod |
| 40 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 after | advmod |
| 41 | after | after | ADV | _ | 38 lived | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Prince | the hand | joyfully property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past · passive | the hand | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | should | fear and the Princess | Princess's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold | past · passive | the wedding | with the greatest splendour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 5 | live | past | Graciosa and Percinet | after, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mind | Princess | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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