The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 47
An instant, and the girl was dissolved into thin air, while the prince darted about like a midge.
Who acts: prince · What happens: dissolve, dart about · To what, where: instant, thin air
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 (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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 instant | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dissolved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dissolved | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dissolved | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dissolved | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dissolved | aux:pass |
| 8 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dissolved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 darted | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 darted | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 darted | nsubj |
| 16 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dissolved | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 darted | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 midge | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 midge | det |
| 20 | midge | midge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 darted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dissolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | past · passive | a instant | into thin air result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into air=Result | ||||
| 2 | dart about | past | the prince | like a midge; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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