The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 7
When the Prince awoke and found that both the mare and the foal had disappeared, he bethought him at once of the eagle, and taking the feather out of his pocket he blew it into the air.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: awake, find, disappear, bethink, take, blow · To what, where: mare, foal, feather, pocket, air
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bethought | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 disappeared | mark |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 10 mare | cc:preconj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mare | det |
| 10 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 foal | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foal | det |
| 13 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mare | conj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disappeared | aux |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bethought | nsubj |
| 18 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bethought | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 bethought | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 eagle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eagle | det |
| 24 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 once | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 taking | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 taking | cc |
| 27 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 bethought | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feather | det |
| 29 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taking | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 pocket | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 pocket | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 33 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taking | obl | ||
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 blew | nsubj |
| 35 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 pocket | acl:relcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 blew | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 air | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blew | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the Prince not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | the mare and the foal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bethink | past | Prince | foal | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | Prince not said here | the feather | Prince's pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | blow | past | Prince | feather | the air | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into air=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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