The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 89
Then they hung a collar round his neck, and held a feather on which was written the name of the dove.
Who acts: runaways · What happens: hang, hold, write, name · To what, where: collar, feather, name, dove
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 (runaways), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hung | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 collar | det |
| 5 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 held | cc |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feather | det |
| 13 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 written | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | aux:pass |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 feather | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dove | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dove | det |
| 22 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 name | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | runaways = runaway | a collar | then | round prince's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient | ||
| 2 | hold | past | runaways = runaway not said here | a feather | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | the name of the dove | a feather | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: name=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | name | the dove | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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