The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 122
Then the Prince seized the girl’s hand and cried out, ‘This is the Princess Hyacinthia!’
Who acts: Prince, This · What happens: seize, cry out, be · To what, where: hand, Princess Hyacinthia
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, This), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cried | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hyacinthia | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hyacinthia | punct |
| 14 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Hyacinthia | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Hyacinthia | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Hyacinthia | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hyacinthia | compound |
| 18 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the Prince | the girl's hand | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the Prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | This | the Princess Hyacinthia | tree rules |
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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