The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 103

Prince Milan at once proceeded to cut it open, when to his surprise two white doves sprang out of it, and one of them said to the other: ‘My dear mate, do not fly away and leave me, and forget me as Prince Milan forgot his beloved Hyacinthia.’

Who acts: Prince Milan, two white doves, one, Milan · What happens: proceed, cut, spring out, say, not fly away, leave · To what, where: cake, other, me, beloved Hyacinthia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. 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, two white doves, one, 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Milan	compound
2	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 proceeded	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 proceeded	obl
5	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proceeded	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	obj
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cut	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sprang	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 sprang	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 surprise	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 surprise	nmod:poss
14	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 doves	nummod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 doves	amod
17	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sprang	nsubj
18	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proceeded	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 it	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sprang	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 said	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proceeded	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 other	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 fly	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 fly	punct
33	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mate	nmod:poss
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mate	amod
35	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fly	vocative
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mate	punct
37	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 fly	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 fly	advmod
39	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	conj
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 fly	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 leave	cc
42	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 fly	conj
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 leave	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 forget	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 forget	cc
46	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 fly	advcl
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 forget	obj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 forgot	mark
49	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Milan	compound
50	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 forgot	nsubj
51	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 forget	advcl
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 Hyacinthia	nmod:poss
53	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Hyacinthia	amod
54	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 forgot	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proceeded	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	Prince Milan				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cut	to-infinitive	Prince Milan not said here	cake		open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	spring out	past	two white doves	cake		to Milan's surprise	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	one of doves		the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
5	not fly away	infinitive · do-support	one of doves not said here			My dear mate vocative; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	infinitive	one of doves not said here	me			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	forget	infinitive	one of doves not said here	me			tree rules
8	forget	past	Prince Milan	Milan's beloved Hyacinthia			tree rules
9	surprise		Milan				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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