The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 8
Then the maiden turned the ball thrice in her hand, and cried,
Who acts: maiden · What happens: turn, cry · To what, where: ball thrice
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thrice | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrice | compound |
| 7 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the maiden | the ball thrice | then | in maiden's hand | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent thrice=Patient in hand=Topic | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the maiden not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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