The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 43
So she took a very strong cord of silk, which she had prepared by the robber’s advice, and this time, though the prince pulled and tugged with all his might, he could not break the cord.
Who acts: sister, advice, back · What happens: take, prepare, pull, tug, not break · To what, where: strong cord, prince, cord
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, advice, back), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cord | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cord | amod |
| 7 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silk | case |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cord | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepared | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 prepared | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prepared | aux |
| 14 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cord | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 advice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 robber | det |
| 17 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 robber | case |
| 19 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepared | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 time | cc |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulled | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 pulled | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tugged | cc |
| 30 | tugged | tug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 pulled | conj |
| 31 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 34 might | mark |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 might | det:predet |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 might | nmod:poss |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 tugged | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 break | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 break | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 break | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 break | advmod |
| 39 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cord | det |
| 41 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 break | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sister | a strong cord of silk | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | |||
| 2 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the robber's advice | a strong cord of silk | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | participle · passive | the prince | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | tug | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | not break | could | back | the cord | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=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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