The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 68
Then at last the prince drew his good sword and cut off the fox’s head, and the next moment a youth stood before him.
Who acts: next moment · What happens: draw, cut off, stand · To what, where: good sword, head
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 (next moment), 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 | 6 drew | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nmod:poss |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sword | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 drew | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 fox | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moment | amod |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | prince's good sword | then | at the last prince | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut off | participle | the fox's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the next moment | before fox | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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