The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 159
Ring instantly took the skin and burned it, and then shook the Prince, who was lying unconscious, until he woke up.
Who acts: Ring, Prince · What happens: take, burn, shake, lie, wake up · To what, where: skin, Prince
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, 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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 burned | cc |
| 7 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 burned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shook | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shook | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 shook | advmod |
| 12 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shook | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lying | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lying | aux |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Prince | conj |
| 19 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lying | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 woke | punct |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 woke | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 woke | nsubj |
| 23 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shook | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 woke | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ring | the skin | instantly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | past | Ring not said here | skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | Ring not said here | the Prince | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | |||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | the Prince | unconscious property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wake up | past | Ring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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