The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 25
Me into a wild rose bush, And him into a rose on my stem.’
Who acts: my · What happens: stem
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bush | amod |
| 5 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bush | compound |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Me | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 him | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 him | cc |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bush | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 rose | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rose | det |
| 12 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 him | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stem | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stem | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Me | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stem | my | nom stem «communication 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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