The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 7
The Prince bent down and lifted her out of her living grave, asking her at the same time how she had managed to get there.
Who acts: Prince, woman · What happens: bend down, lift, ask, manage, get · To what, where: woman, living grave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, woman), 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 | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 bent | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lifted | cc |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifted | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grave | amod |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asking | punct |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lifted | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asking | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asking | obl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 managed | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 managed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 managed | aux |
| 23 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asking | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 managed | xcomp |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | past | the Prince | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | the Prince not said here | woman | woman's living grave | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out grave=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the Prince not said here | woman | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | manage | past · perfect | woman | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | woman not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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