The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 105
Ring was nearly swooning by this time, but Snati made a third effort and reached the top of the cliff, where the Prince fell down in a faint.
Who acts: Ring, Snati, Prince · What happens: swoon, make, reach, fall down · To what, where: third effort, top, faint
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, Snati, 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 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swooning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swooning | aux |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 swooning | advmod |
| 4 | swooning | swoon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swooning | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swooning | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 effort | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 effort | amod |
| 14 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cliff | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cliff | det |
| 21 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 fell | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cliff | conj |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 fell | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 faint | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 faint | det |
| 30 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swooning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoon | past · progressive | Ring | time | nearly property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | make | past | Snati | a third effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Snati not said here | the top of the cliff | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall down | past | the Prince | a faint | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in faint=Location |
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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