The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 108
When she had said this she lifted the cover off one of the dishes, and the prince saw that there lay on it a knife and an axe.
Who acts: girl, prince · What happens: say, lift, see, lie · To what, where: this, cover, knife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lifted | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cover | det |
| 9 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 lifted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dishes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dishes | det |
| 14 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 lay | mark |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lay | advmod |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lay | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 knife | det |
| 26 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 axe | cc |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 axe | det |
| 29 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knife | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | girl | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | girl | the cover | off one of the dishes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cover=Theme off one=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | the prince not said here | a knife and a axe | cover; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knife=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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