The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 94
In one instant the very streams were dried up, and the Prince, seizing his opportunity, carried the Princess over the Golden Fountain.
Who acts: Prince, opportunity · What happens: dry up, seize, carry · To what, where: streams, one instant, opportunity, Princess, Golden Fountain
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, opportunity), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 instant | nummod |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dried | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streams | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 streams | advmod |
| 6 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dried | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dried | aux:pass |
| 8 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 dried | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seizing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seizing | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seizing | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seizing | punct |
| 15 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dried | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 opportunity | nmod:poss |
| 17 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seizing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 opportunity | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 Fountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fountain | det |
| 24 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Fountain | amod |
| 25 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry up | past · passive | the streams | one instant | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the Prince | Prince's opportunity | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Prince's opportunity not said here | the Princess | the Golden Fountain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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