The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 32
The Prince hastily seized the bird’s wings in his hands, when, lo! to his astonishment he found he was holding in his arms not a bird but the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
Who acts: Prince, bird · What happens: seize, find, hold, see, astonish · To what, where: wings, hands, bird, arms, beautiful girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, bird), 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 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 seized | advmod |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 when | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 seized | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 15 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 21 found | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 lo | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 astonishment | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 19 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 holding | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 holding | aux |
| 24 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 found | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 arms | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 holding | obl |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 bird | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bird | det |
| 30 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 holding | obj |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 seen | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 beautiful | advmod |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 girl | amod |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 seen | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 seen | aux |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 seen | advmod |
| 39 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 holding | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the Prince | the bird's wings | bird's hands | hastily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | past | Prince | to bird's astonishment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past · progressive | Prince | a bird | bird's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in arm=Location | |||
| 4 | see | past · perfect · passive | the beautiful girl | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | astonish | bird | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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