The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 56
The Prince found that it proceeded from an immense glowing carbuncle, made into a box, which lay before him.
Who acts: Prince, light, box · What happens: find, proceed, glow, make, lie · To what, where: immense glowing carbuncle, box · Speech: someone speaks here
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, light, box), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 proceeded | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proceeded | nsubj |
| 6 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 carbuncle | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 carbuncle | det |
| 9 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carbuncle | amod |
| 10 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 carbuncle | amod |
| 11 | carbuncle | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceeded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 carbuncle | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 box | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 box | acl:relcl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | proceed | past | light | a immense glowing carbuncle | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | make | participle | a immense glowing carbuncle not said here | a box | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into box=Product | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | a box | before prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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