The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 52

Then he suddenly bethought him of his little bell, and taking it out of his pocket he rang it once.

Who acts: last · What happens: bethink, take, ring · To what, where: Prince, bell, pocket

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), 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	4 bethought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bethought	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 bethought	advmod
4	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bethought	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bell	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bell	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bell	amod
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bethought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taking	cc
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bethought	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taking	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 pocket	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pocket	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pocket	nmod:poss
17	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rang	nsubj
19	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pocket	acl:relcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rang	obj
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 rang	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	last	Prince		then	of last's little bell; suddenly property	tree rules
2	take	gerund	last not said here	bell	last's pocket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
3	ring	past	last	bell			once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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