The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 122

But as he looked one of them silently drew a white sash from her pocket and slipped it round her waist, and the young man sprang to her and said, ‘This is the princess, and I claim her for my wife.’

Who acts: king, young man, This, I · What happens: look, draw, slip, spring, say, be · To what, where: one, white sash, pocket, sash, staircase, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, young man, This, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 drew	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 looked	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 looked	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	silently	silently	ADV	_	9 drew	advmod
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sash	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sash	amod
12	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pocket	nmod:poss
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sash	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slipped	cc
17	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slipped	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 waist	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 waist	nmod:poss
21	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slipped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sprang	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sprang	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sprang	nsubj
27	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sprang	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sprang	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 princess	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 princess	punct
34	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 princess	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 princess	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 claim	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 claim	cc
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 claim	nsubj
41	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	conj
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 claim	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 wife	case
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 claim	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	king	one of doors				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
2	draw	past		a white sash		staircase's pocket	silently property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sash=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
3	slip	past		sash			round staircase's waist	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	spring	past	the young man		staircase			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	the young man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	This	the princess				tree rules
7	claim speech: other	present	I	staircase			for my wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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