The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 62
The Prince lay the little garment on the bank beside her, and stepped back into the bushes.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: lie, step back · To what, where: little garment, bank, bushes
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garment | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garment | amod |
| 6 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bank | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stepped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stepped | cc |
| 14 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 stepped | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 bushes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bushes | det |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stepped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the Prince | the little garment | the bank | beside Heaven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme | ||
| 2 | step back | past | the Prince not said here | the bushes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=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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