The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 50
But the Prince, without saying a word, seized him at once by his beard and dashed him to the ground.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: say, seize, dash · To what, where: word, Iwanich · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 seized | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 saying | mark |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Prince | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 seized | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 beard | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beard | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dashed | cc |
| 18 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dashed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dashed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Prince not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | the Prince | Iwanich | by Iwanich's beard | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | dash | past | the Prince not said here | Iwanich | to the ground result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to ground=Result |
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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