The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 44
So the prince went back, and brought some more water, and again a hoop sprang.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go back, bring · To what, where: hoop sprang, more water
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 water | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sprang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprang | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 sprang | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sprang | det |
| 16 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprang | compound |
| 17 | sprang | sprang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the prince | a hoop sprang | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the prince not said here | some more water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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