The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 115
The prince picked it up, and, wrapping it round with a thick cloth, hid it in his bosom.
Who acts: prince · What happens: pick up, wrap, hide, bosom · To what, where: brain, bosom
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrapping | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrapping | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrapping | punct |
| 9 | wrapping | wrap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 picked | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrapping | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 wrapping | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cloth | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cloth | det |
| 14 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloth | amod |
| 15 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrapping | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hid | punct |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hid | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bosom | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hid | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the prince | brain | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wrap | gerund | the prince not said here | brain | with a thick cloth; round property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with cloth=Theme | |||
| 3 | hide | past | the prince not said here | brain | prince's bosom | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in bosom=Location | |||
| 4 | bosom | prince | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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