The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 45
Then Militza bent over the Prince and kissed him on his forehead, and before he had time to say a word she vanished through the branches of the tree in a little white cloud.
Who acts: Militza, lustre · What happens: bend, kiss, have, say, vanish · To what, where: Militza, forehead, word, branches · 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 (Militza, lustre), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bent | advmod |
| 2 | Militza | Militza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | cc |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 forehead | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 12 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kissed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 say | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 vanished | nsubj |
| 24 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 word | acl:relcl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 branches | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 branches | det |
| 27 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 vanished | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 branches | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 cloud | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cloud | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cloud | amod |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cloud | amod |
| 35 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vanished | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Militza | then | over the Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over prince=Location | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | Militza not said here | Militza | Militza's forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | have | past | Militza | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Militza not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | vanish | past | lustre | a word not said here | the branches of the tree | in a little white cloud | tree rules |
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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