The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 88
The Prince promptly guessed that the cord was used to chain the Princess, and drew his sword and cut it.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: guess, use, draw, cut · To what, where: cord, 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 3 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cord | det |
| 7 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 guessed | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 chain | mark |
| 11 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drew | cc |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sword | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drew | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cut | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | the Prince | promptly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | the cord | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | the Prince not said here | Prince's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | infinitive | the Prince not said here | cord | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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