The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 49
This, however, the prince forgot on the wedding day, and stretched out his hand and took a cup of wine; but the princess was keeping watch over him, and gave him a push with her elbow, so that the wine flew over the table- cloth.
Who acts: This, princess, wine · What happens: forget, stretch out, take, keep, give, fly · To what, where: hand, cup, watch, push, prince, table cloth
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 (This, princess, wine), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgot | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 forgot | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forgot | nsubj |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | compound |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forgot | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stretched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stretched | cc |
| 14 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 forgot | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 stretched | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stretched | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wine | case |
| 23 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cup | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 keeping | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 keeping | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 princess | det |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keeping | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 keeping | aux |
| 29 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 forgot | advcl |
| 30 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keeping | obj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 keeping | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gave | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gave | cc |
| 35 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgot | parataxis |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 gave | iobj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 push | det |
| 38 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gave | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 elbow | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 41 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 push | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 flew | punct |
| 43 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 flew | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 so | fixed |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wine | det |
| 46 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 flew | nsubj |
| 47 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 gave | conj |
| 48 | over | over | ADP | _ | 52 cloth | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 cloth | det |
| 50 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 cloth | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 table | punct |
| 52 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 flew | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | This | day | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | prince's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | past | a cup of wine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | past · progressive | the princess | watch | over prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over he=Location | |||
| 5 | give | past | a push | prince | with princess's elbow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient push=Theme | |||
| 6 | fly | past | the wine | the table cloth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cloth=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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