The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 38
Wondering at this strange order, the prince picked up his knife and severed the dove’s head from her body at one stroke.
Who acts: prince · What happens: wonder, pick up, sever · To what, where: strange order, knife, head, body
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 | Wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 picked | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 order | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 order | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 order | amod |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wondering | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wondering | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picked | nsubj |
| 9 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 picked | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picked | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 severed | cc |
| 14 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 picked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dove | det |
| 16 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 dove | case |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 severed | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 severed | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 stroke | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 stroke | nummod |
| 24 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 severed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the prince not said here | this strange order | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | the prince | prince's knife | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sever | past | the prince not said here | the dove's head | daughter's body | at one stroke | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme from body=Initial_Location |
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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