The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 11

When the prince got the beautiful bird into his hand he could not resist the temptation to stroke it, whereupon it awoke and began to scream.

Who acts: prince, bird · What happens: get, not resist, stroke, awake, begin, scream · To what, where: beautiful bird, hand, temptation, bird

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, bird), 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 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 resist	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 resist	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 resist	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 resist	advmod
14	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 temptation	det
16	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 resist	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stroke	mark
18	stroke	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 temptation	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stroke	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 awoke	punct
21	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	23 awoke	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 awoke	nsubj
23	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 resist	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 awoke	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 scream	mark
27	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 resist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the prince	the beautiful bird	prince's hand		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	not resist	could	prince	the temptation			tree rules
3	stroke	to-infinitive	prince not said here	bird			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	awake	past	bird			whereupon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	bird not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	scream speech: express	to-infinitive	bird not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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