The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 75
The child at once caressed the Prince, who, carried away by its beauty, bent down and kissed it on the cheek.
Who acts: child, beauty · What happens: caress, carry away, bend down, kiss · To what, where: Prince, child, cheek
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 (child, beauty), 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 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caressed | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 caressed | obl |
| 5 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 caressed | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 carried | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 beauty | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bent | punct |
| 17 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 carried | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 bent | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kissed | cc |
| 20 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kissed | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 cheek | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cheek | det |
| 24 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kissed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | the child | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry away | participle · passive | child's beauty | the Prince | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | bend down | participle | child's beauty not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | child's beauty not said here | child | the cheek | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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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