The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 45
This was granted, and the Invisible Prince speedily took the opportunity of handing her the stone, which she at once slipped into her mouth.
Who acts: Invisible Prince, opportunity, stone · What happens: grant, take, hand, slip · To what, where: This, opportunity, stone, Rosalie, mouth
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 (Invisible Prince, opportunity, stone), 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 | 3 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | aux:pass |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 7 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | compound |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 9 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opportunity | det |
| 12 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 handing | mark |
| 14 | handing | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 opportunity | acl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 handing | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 handing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slipped | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slipped | nsubj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slipped | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 slipped | obl |
| 23 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slipped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | This | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the Invisible Prince | the opportunity | speedily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | |||
| 3 | hand | gerund | the opportunity not said here | the stone | Rosalie | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination stone=Theme | |||
| 4 | slip | past | the stone | Rosalie's mouth | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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