The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 55
Prince Milan loosened from his neck the little gold cross his mother had given him, and as soon as Hyacinthia grasped it, she had changed herself into a church, Milan into a monk, and the horse into a belfry.
Who acts: Prince Milan, little gold, Hyacinthia, pursuit · What happens: loosen, cross, give, grasp, change · To what, where: horse, belfry, neck, mother, Milan, gold
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, little gold, Hyacinthia, pursuit), 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 | 3 loosened | nsubj |
| 3 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 neck | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gold | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gold | amod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | nsubj |
| 10 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loosened | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cross | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 changed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 changed | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 changed | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 grasped | mark |
| 21 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 grasped | nsubj |
| 22 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 soon | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grasped | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 changed | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 changed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 changed | aux |
| 27 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 loosened | conj |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 changed | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 church | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 church | det |
| 31 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 changed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Milan | punct |
| 33 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 church | appos |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 monk | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 monk | det |
| 36 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 changed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 horse | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 horse | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 horse | det |
| 40 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loosened | obl |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 belfry | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 belfry | det |
| 43 | belfry | belfry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loosened | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | Prince Milan | the horse | a belfry | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cross | infinitive | the little gold | Milan's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | Milan's mother | Milan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grasp | past | Hyacinthia | gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | change | past · perfect | pursuit | pursuit | into a church result; into a monk; soon property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into church=Result |
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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