The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 88
The princess was asleep, but Ciccu seized her arm and pulled her out of bed, and beat her till she gave back the purse.
Who acts: princess, Ciccu · What happens: be, seize, pull, beat, give back · To what, where: arm, princess, bed, purse
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Ciccu), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 seized | cc |
| 7 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arm | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulled | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beat | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beat | cc |
| 19 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beat | obj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 gave | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beat | advcl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 gave | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 purse | det |
| 26 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Ciccu | princess's arm | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | Ciccu not said here | princess | bed | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | beat | past | Ciccu not said here | princess | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give back | past | princess | the purse | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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