The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 33
And when in her turn the princess prepared to strike, the horse sank upon his knees, so that the blade pierced the genius’s thigh.
Who acts: horse, blade · What happens: turn, prepare, strike, sink, pierce · To what, where: princess, thigh
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (horse, blade), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turn | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 turn | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 8 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 princess | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 strike | mark |
| 10 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prepared | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sank | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sank | nsubj |
| 14 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 knees | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knees | nmod:poss |
| 17 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sank | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pierced | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 pierced | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blade | det |
| 22 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pierced | nsubj |
| 23 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 genius | det |
| 25 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 genius | case |
| 27 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pierced | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | the princess | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme princess=Result | |||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | the princess not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | strike not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sink | past | the horse | the princess not said here | upon genius's knees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 5 | pierce | past | the blade | the genius's thigh | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thigh=Patient |
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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