The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 82
When the prince stepped over the threshold he caught sight of a maiden of wonderful beauty, with brown eyes and fair curly hair.
Who acts: prince · What happens: step, catch, sight · To what, where: threshold, sight, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 threshold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 threshold | det |
| 7 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threshold | acl:relcl |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maiden | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stepped | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hair | cc |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 23 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eyes | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the prince | the threshold | with brown eyes and fair curly hair | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over threshold=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | catch | past | prince | sight of a maiden of wonderful beauty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | a maiden of wonderful beauty | nom sight «cognition 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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