The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 11

The prince took it from her, and fed it with his last crust of bread and last drop of water, and then gave it back to its mother.

Who acts: prince · What happens: take, feed, give back · To what, where: hunger, mother

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fed	cc
9	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fed	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 crust	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 crust	nmod:poss
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crust	amod
14	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 bread	case
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crust	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drop	cc
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drop	amod
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crust	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drop	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 gave	advmod
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 gave	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the prince	hunger			from stranger	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from she=Initial_Location
2	feed	past	the prince not said here	hunger			with prince's last crust of bread and last drop of water	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	give back	past	the prince not said here	hunger	hunger's mother	then		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Recipient

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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