The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 55
So the prince unfastened the trap, pulled out one of the fox’s hairs, and continued his journey.
Who acts: prince · What happens: unfasten, pull out, continue, journey · To what, where: trap, one, journey
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 unfastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unfastened | nsubj |
| 4 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trap | det |
| 6 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unfastened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pulled | punct |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 unfastened | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pulled | compound:prt |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pulled | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hairs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 fox | case |
| 15 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 continued | cc |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unfastened | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unfastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfasten | participle | the prince | the trap | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pull out | participle | the prince not said here | one of the fox's hairs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | prince's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||||
| 4 | journey | prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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