The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 30

The prince made haste to get the silk thread tied round her little white finger; at the same moment the princess became a dove again and flew away, and immediately after that the old witch came home with her dough-trough on he back.

Who acts: princess, old witch · What happens: make, get, tie, become, fly away, come · To what, where: silk thread, dove

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, old witch), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 haste	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 haste	amod
4	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 haste	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thread	det
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thread	compound
9	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thread	acl
11	round	round	ADP	_	15 finger	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 finger	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 finger	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 finger	amod
15	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tied	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 moment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moment	amod
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 haste	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dove	det
25	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 became	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 became	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 flew	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
32	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	33 after	advmod
33	after	after	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 witch	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 witch	amod
37	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 became	conj
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	44 trough	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 trough	nmod:poss
42	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trough	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 dough	punct
44	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
45	on	on	ADP	_	46 he	case
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 back	nsubj
47	back	back	ADV	_	44 trough	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 haste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	get	to-infinitive		the silk thread			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus
3	tie	participle		the silk thread not said here		round witch's little white finger	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	become	past	the princess	a dove	again; moment		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	fly away	past	the princess not said here			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	the old witch			with witch's dough trough; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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