The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 64

Thereupon he drew a handful of gold from his pocket, and offered it to the old woman, and when she would not take it, he threw it down upon the table and was off like a flash of lightning, without even staying to ask the way.

Who acts: Prince, woman, lightning · What happens: draw, offer, not take, throw down, stay, ask · To what, where: handful, pocket, old woman, table, way

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, woman, lightning), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 handful	det
5	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handful	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 offered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 offered	cc
13	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offered	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 take	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 take	advmod
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 offered	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	nsubj
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 threw	compound:prt
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 table	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 table	det
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 off	cc
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 off	cop
37	off	off	ADP	_	29 threw	compound:prt
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 flash	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 flash	det
40	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 lightning	case
42	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 flash	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 staying	punct
44	without	without	SCONJ	_	46 staying	mark
45	even	even	ADV	_	46 staying	advmod
46	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 threw	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 ask	mark
48	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 staying	xcomp
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 way	det
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ask	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Prince	a handful of gold		Prince's pocket	thereupon property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	offer	past	Prince not said here	handful	the old woman			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to woman=Goal
3	not take	would	woman	handful				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	throw down	past	Prince	handful		the table	like a flash of lightning	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon table=Destination
5	stay	gerund	Prince not said here					tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the way				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
7	flash		lightning					nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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