The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 87
And the third flew on his shoulder and whispered to him, ‘Put on this ring, prince, and see if it fits you.’
Who acts: third, shoulder · What happens: fly, whisper, put, see, fit · To what, where: shoulder, third, ring, you
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 (third, shoulder), 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 | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shoulder | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whispered | cc |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Put | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Put | punct |
| 14 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whispered | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ring | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 ring | det |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prince | punct |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ring | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Put | advcl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 fits | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fits | nsubj |
| 25 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 fits | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the third | third's shoulder | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the third not said here | third | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the third not said here | this ring | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ring=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the third not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | fit a condition, not said to happen | present | shoulder | you | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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