The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 60
Prince Milan’s heart was so moved with pity for the poor little creature that he came out from behind the bulrushes, to see if he could be of any help.
Who acts: heart · What happens: move, come out, see, be · To what, where: heart, bulrushes
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 (heart), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Milan | compound |
| 2 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Milan | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 moved | advmod |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pity | case |
| 9 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 creature | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 bulrushes | case |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 bulrushes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bulrushes | det |
| 22 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | conj |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 help | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 help | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 help | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 help | cop |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 help | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 help | det |
| 32 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | Prince Milan's heart | with pity; for the poor little creature | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | heart | the bulrushes | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | could | heart | of any help | 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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