The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 89

And the maiden believed what the prince told her; and in the morning when he put on his lion’s form she took a knife and slew him, and cut him up very small, and burnt him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water came the prince, beautiful as the day, and as glad to look upon as the sun himself.

Who acts: maiden, prince, giant, lion · What happens: believe, tell, put, take, slay, cut up · To what, where: giant, form, knife, prince, ashes, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, prince, giant, lion), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 believed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 told	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believed	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 put	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 morning	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 form	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lion	nmod:poss
20	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 form	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 lion	case
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believed	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 knife	det
26	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slew	cc
28	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 slew	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cut	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cut	cc
32	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 slew	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cut	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 cut	compound:prt
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 small	advmod
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cut	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 burnt	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 burnt	cc
39	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	parataxis
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 burnt	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cast	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cast	cc
43	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 burnt	conj
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ashes	nmod:poss
45	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 cast	obj
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 water	det
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cast	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 came	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 came	cc
51	out	out	ADP	_	54 water	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 water	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 water	det
54	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 came	obl
55	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 burnt	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 prince	det
57	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 came	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 beautiful	punct
59	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 prince	amod
60	as	as	ADP	_	62 day	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 day	det
62	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 beautiful	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 glad	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 glad	cc
65	as	as	ADP	_	66 glad	case
66	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 came	conj
67	to	to	PART	_	68 look	mark
68	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 glad	xcomp
69	upon	upon	ADP	_	72 sun	case
70	as	as	ADP	_	72 sun	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 sun	det
72	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 look	obl
73	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	72 sun	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the maiden						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the prince		giant				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic
3	put	past	prince			prince's lion's form			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on form=Destination
4	take	past	giant	a knife			morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	slay	past	giant not said here	prince					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	cut up	infinitive	giant not said here	prince					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
7	burnt	past		prince					tree rules
8	cast	past		prince's ashes		the water			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent ash=Material into water=Product
9	come	past		the prince		the water			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme
10	look	to-infinitive						upon the sun prince	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon sun=Theme
11	form		prince's lion						nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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