The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 88
Silent from joy, the Prince kissed her hand to express his thanks, and when he rose and saw his new reflection in the mirrors which surrounded him, he understood that Curlicue was indeed gone for ever.
Who acts: Silent joy, prince, Curlicue · What happens: kiss, express, rise, see, surround, understand · To what, where: hand, thanks, new reflection, mirrors · 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 (Silent joy, prince, Curlicue), 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 | Silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joy | amod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | nsubj |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 express | mark |
| 11 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kissed | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 express | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rose | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 rose | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kissed | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rose | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reflection | amod |
| 23 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mirrors | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mirrors | det |
| 26 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 mirrors | acl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 surrounded | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 understood | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 understood | nsubj |
| 32 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rose | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 gone | mark |
| 34 | Curlicue | Curlicue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 gone | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 gone | cop |
| 36 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 37 gone | advmod |
| 37 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 understood | ccomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 ever | case |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 gone | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Silent joy | joy's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | Silent joy not said here | prince's thanks | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | prince not said here | prince's new reflection | the mirrors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reflection=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | surround | participle · passive | the mirrors | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | understand | past | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Curlicue | go, indeed property | tree rules |
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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