The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 14
He put it in the crib, and returned with a second supply, when to his horror he found the crib empty.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: put, return, find · To what, where: scythe, crib
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 (maiden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 crib | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crib | det |
| 6 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 supply | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 supply | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 supply | amod |
| 13 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 found | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 horror | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horror | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crib | det |
| 22 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 found | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | maiden | scythe | the crib | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in crib=Destination | |||
| 2 | return | past | maiden not said here | with a second supply | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | maiden | the crib | to maiden's horror; empty property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crib=Topic |
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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