The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 45
The Prince in his haste snatched it up so quickly that it went out, and it took him a long time to light it again with two little bits of glowing charcoal which he had to dig out from the pile of ashes upon the hearth.
Who acts: Prince, haste, it, glowing charcoal · What happens: snatch up, go out, take, light, glow, have · To what, where: haste, Prince, glowing charcoal, pile
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, haste, it, glowing charcoal), 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 | 6 snatched | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 haste | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 haste | nmod:poss |
| 5 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | nmod |
| 6 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 snatched | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 snatched | compound:prt |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 quickly | advmod |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 snatched | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snatched | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snatched | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 light | mark |
| 24 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 light | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 light | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 bits | case |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 bits | nummod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bits | amod |
| 30 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 light | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 charcoal | case |
| 32 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 charcoal | amod |
| 33 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bits | nmod |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 had | obj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 charcoal | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 dig | mark |
| 38 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 had | xcomp |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 dig | compound:prt |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 pile | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pile | det |
| 42 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dig | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 ashes | case |
| 44 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 pile | nmod |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 hearth | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 hearth | det |
| 47 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dig | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | past | the Prince in Prince's haste | haste | quickly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | go out | past | haste | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | it | Prince | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | light | to-infinitive | haste | again | with two little bits of glowing charcoal | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product with bit=Material | |||
| 5 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | Prince | glowing charcoal | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | dig out | to-infinitive | glowing charcoal not said here | the pile of ashes | upon the hearth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hearth=Location |
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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