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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 18

The cries she uttered softened the heart of the Prince; he took the stone from his mouth, and drawing his sword he rushed after the giant, so as to give the lady time to escape.

Who acts: sight, Prince · What happens: utter, soften, take, draw, rush, give · To what, where: cries, heart, stone, mouth, sword · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Prince), 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

detnsubjacl:relclccompdetobjcasedetnmodpunctnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccadvclnmod:possobjnsubjacl:relclmarkdetxcomppunctadvmodmarkmarkconjdetcompoundobjmarkaclpunctrootTheDETcriesNOUNshePRONutteredVERBsoftenedVERBtheDETheartNOUNofADPtheDETPrincePROPN;PUNCThePRONtookVERBtheDETstoneNOUNfromADPhisPRONmouthNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdrawingVERBhisPRONswordNOUNhePRONrushedVERBafterSCONJtheDETgiantADJ,PUNCTsoADVasSCONJtoPARTgiveVERBtheDETladyNOUNtimeNOUNtoPARTescapeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 criesdet
2criescryNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 utterednsubj
4utteredutterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 criesacl:relcl
5softenedsoftenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 utteredccomp
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 heartdet
7heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing5 softenedobj
8ofofADP_10 Princecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Princedet
10PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing7 heartnmod
11;;PUNCT_13 tookpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 tooknsubj
13tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 criesacl:relcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 stonedet
15stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing13 tookobj
16fromfromADP_18 mouthcase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 mouthnmod:poss
18mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing13 tookobl
19,,PUNCT_21 drawingpunct
20andandCCONJ_21 drawingcc
21drawingdrawVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 tookadvcl
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 swordnmod:poss
23swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing21 drawingobj
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 rushednsubj
25rushedrushVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 swordacl:relcl
26afterafterSCONJ_28 giantmark
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 giantdet
28giantgiantADJDegree=Pos25 rushedxcomp
29,,PUNCT_33 givepunct
30sosoADV_33 giveadvmod
31asasSCONJ_33 givemark
32totoPART_33 givemark
33givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf21 drawingconj
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 timedet
35ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing36 timecompound
36timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing33 giveobj
37totoPART_38 escapemark
38escapeescapeVERBVerbForm=Inf36 timeacl
39..PUNCT_2 criespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1utter speech: otherpastsightthe cries not said heretree rules
2softenparticiplethe heart of the Princevn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3takepastPrincethe stonePrince's mouthvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location
4drawgerundPrince not said herePrince's swordvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5rushpastPrincePrince's sword not said heregiant propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sword=Trajectory
6giveto-infinitivePrince not said heretimevn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7escapeto-infinitivePrince not said herevn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 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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