The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 57

When she drew near he held out his hand, which she grasped eagerly, taking it for that of her lover; and, seizing his opportunity, the Prince passed a cord round her arms, and throwing off his invisibility cried to his spirits to drag her into the lowest pit.

Who acts: turn, Prince, hand, invisibility · What happens: draw, hold out, grasp, take, seize, pass · To what, where: hand, fountain, opportunity, cord, spirits, turn

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 (turn, Prince, hand, invisibility), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 drew	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 held	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 held	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grasped	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 grasped	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grasped	nsubj
13	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hand	acl:relcl
14	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	13 grasped	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taking	punct
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 grasped	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taking	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 taking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 lover	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lover	nmod:poss
22	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 that	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seizing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seizing	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seizing	punct
26	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 drew	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 opportunity	nmod:poss
28	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seizing	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 passed	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 passed	nsubj
32	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 opportunity	acl:relcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cord	det
34	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 passed	obj
35	round	round	ADP	_	37 arms	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 arms	nmod:poss
37	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 passed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 throwing	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 throwing	cc
40	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 seizing	conj
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 throwing	compound:prt
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 invisibility	nmod:poss
43	invisibility	invisibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cried	nsubj
44	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 throwing	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 spirits	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 spirits	nmod:poss
47	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 cried	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 drag	mark
49	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 cried	advcl
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 drag	obj
51	into	into	ADP	_	54 pit	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 pit	det
53	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	54 pit	amod
54	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 drag	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	turn					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold out	past	Prince	Prince's hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	grasp	past	Prince's hand				eagerly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	take	gerund	Prince's hand not said here	fountain			for that	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for that=Beneficiary
5	seize	gerund	turn not said here	Prince's opportunity				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
6	pass	past	the Prince	a cord			round turn's arms	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cord=Trajectory
7	throw off	gerund	turn not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	cry speech: express	past	Prince's invisibility		Prince's spirits			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to spirit=Recipient
9	drag	to-infinitive	Prince's invisibility not said here	turn		the lowest pit		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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