The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 39

A little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in its beak, and laying it in the prince’s hand, dabbled itself with the blood that was in the basin, when its head became that of a beautiful girl.

Who acts: little while, blood, head · What happens: lay, dabble, be, become · To what, where: head, hand, basin, beautiful girl

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 (little while, blood, head), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dabbled	nsubj:outer
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 rose	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rose	det
6	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	compound
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 while	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 ring	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ring	det
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 beak	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beak	nmod:poss
16	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ring	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dabbled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dabbled	cc
19	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 dabbled	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laying	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 prince	det
23	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 prince	case
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laying	punct
27	dabbled	dabble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 dabbled	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 blood	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blood	det
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dabbled	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 basin	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 basin	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 basin	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 basin	det
36	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 blood	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 became	punct
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 became	mark
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 became	nsubj
41	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 basin	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 girl	mark
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 girl	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 girl	det
45	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 girl	amod
46	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 became	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 dabbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund	a little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in water's beak not said here	head	the prince's hand		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination
2	dabble	past	a little while after a dove rose from the water with a ring in water's beak	head		with the blood	tree rules
3	is	past	the blood		the basin		tree rules
4	become	past	head's head	a beautiful girl			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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