The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 86
‘Rise, Prince,’ said the Fairy, touching him with the Golden Branch.
What happens: rise, say, touch · To what, where: Prince, Fairy · 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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rise | punct |
| 2 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rise | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rise | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rise | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 touching | punct |
| 11 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touching | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Branch | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Branch | det |
| 15 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Branch | amod |
| 16 | Branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touching | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | infinitive | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | prince | with the Golden Branch | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with branch=Instrument |
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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