The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 51
The prince picked up the fish and threw it into the water; then he took off one of its scales, as he had been told, and put it in his pocket, carefully wrapped in a cloth.
Who acts: prince · What happens: pick up, throw, take off, tell, put, wrap · To what, where: fish, water, one, prince, pocket, cloth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 took | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 scales | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 scales | nmod:poss |
| 21 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 told | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 told | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 told | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 told | aux:pass |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 took | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 told | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 pocket | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 34 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl | ||
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wrapped | punct |
| 36 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 37 wrapped | advmod |
| 37 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 took | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 cloth | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cloth | det |
| 40 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wrapped | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the prince | the fish | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | the prince not said here | fish | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into water=Result | |||
| 3 | take off | past | prince | one of water's scales | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | fish | prince's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination | ||||
| 6 | wrap | participle | prince not said here | a cloth | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
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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