The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 50
But the Prince, throwing himself on his knees beside her, held out the splendid diamond, saying:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: throw, hold out, say · To what, where: Mannikin, knees, splendid diamond · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 throwing | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 throwing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 throwing | punct |
| 5 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 throwing | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 knees | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 throwing | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 throwing | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 held | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 diamond | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 diamond | amod |
| 17 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 throwing | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 throwing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | the Prince | Mannikin | Mannikin's knees beside Princess | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on knee=Destination | |||
| 2 | hold out | participle | the Prince not said here | the splendid diamond | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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