The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 62
Then he took the prince up out of the lion’s den and gave him directions what to do now so as to come by his rights again.
Who acts: fox · What happens: take up, give, do, come · To what, where: prince, den, directions, fox
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 (fox), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 den | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 den | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 den | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 lion | case |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 directions | acl:relcl |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gave | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 rights | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rights | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 come | obl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | fox | the prince | the lion's den | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme out den=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | give | past | fox not said here | directions | fox | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient direction=Theme | ||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | fox not said here | directions | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | fox not said here | again | by fox's rights | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by right=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 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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