The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 41
At these words the Prince, who had been growing more and more astonished, was fairly terrified, and dropping the book with a crash he sank back insensible.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: grow, be, drop, sink back · To what, where: words, book, crash
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 terrified | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 words | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 growing | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 growing | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 growing | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 growing | aux |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Prince | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 growing | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 astonished | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 astonished | advmod |
| 14 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 more | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 terrified | cop |
| 17 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 18 terrified | advmod |
| 18 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dropping | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dropping | cc |
| 21 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 terrified | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 book | det |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dropping | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 crash | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 crash | det |
| 26 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 book | nmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sank | nsubj |
| 28 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 crash | acl:relcl |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 sank | advmod |
| 30 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dropping | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect · progressive | the Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this words | fairly, terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | the book | with a crash; insensible property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sink back | past | prince | a crash not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crash=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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