The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 1
But the maiden’s hand had hardly touched the dress when the palace suddenly awoke from its sleep, and the Prince was seized and bound.
Who acts: palace · What happens: touch, awake, seize, bind, sleep · To what, where: hand, sleep, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), 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 | _ | 8 touched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 maiden | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | aux |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 touched | advmod |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dress | det |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 awoke | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 awoke | advmod |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sleep | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awoke | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seized | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seized | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seized | aux:pass |
| 24 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 awoke | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bound | cc |
| 26 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 seized | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | the maiden's hand | hardly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer dress=Result | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | the palace | palace's sleep | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | the Prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bind | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | sleep | palace | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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