The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 52
Prince Curlicue was delighted; he opened one after another, until at last he came to one tiny drawer which contained only an emerald key.
Who acts: Curlicue, prince, one tiny drawer · What happens: be, open, come, contain · To what, where: one, last, emerald key
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 (Curlicue, prince, one tiny drawer), 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 | 2 Curlicue | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Curlicue | Curlicue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 opened | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 another | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 drawer | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 drawer | nummod |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 drawer | amod |
| 20 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 contained | nsubj |
| 22 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawer | acl:relcl |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 key | advmod |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 key | det |
| 25 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 key | compound |
| 26 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contained | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Curlicue Prince | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | prince | one | after another | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | prince | last | to one tiny drawer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to drawer=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | contain | past | one tiny drawer | a emerald key | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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