The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 83

‘Then you know the original,’ cried the Prince, throwing himself on his knees beside her.

Who acts: you · What happens: know, cry, throw · To what, where: original, Prince, knees

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 original	det
6	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throwing	punct
13	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 throwing	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 knees	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knees	nmod:poss
17	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throwing	obl
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throwing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	the original		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer original=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	the Prince				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
3	throw	gerund	you not said here	Prince	Prince's knees		beside Princess	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on knee=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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