The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 75
As soon as Prince Milan entered he flung himself on his knees.
Who acts: Prince Milan, Milan · What happens: enter, fling · To what, where: Milan, knees
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 Milan, Milan), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 entered | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 entered | mark |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Milan | compound |
| 5 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flung | nsubj |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | ccomp |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 flung | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 knees | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knees | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flung | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Prince Milan | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | Milan | Milan | Milan's knees | vn throw-17.1-1 «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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