The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 77
The dishes were arranged down the centre of it, and with his usual impetuosity the Prince seized the one that stood in front of him to draw it nearer, but soon found that it was firmly fixed in its place.
Who acts: Prince, one · What happens: arrange, seize, stand, draw, find, fix · To what, where: dishes, one, front, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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, one), 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 dishes | det |
| 2 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arranged | aux:pass |
| 4 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 centre | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 centre | det |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arranged | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 centre | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seized | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 impetuosity | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 impetuosity | nmod:poss |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 impetuosity | amod |
| 15 | impetuosity | impetuosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arranged | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 front | case |
| 24 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 front | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 draw | mark |
| 28 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 stood | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 draw | obj |
| 30 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 draw | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 found | advmod |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 fixed | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 fixed | aux:pass |
| 38 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 39 fixed | advmod |
| 39 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 found | ccomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 place | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 place | nmod:poss |
| 42 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fixed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | the dishes | down the centre of centre | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | the Prince | the one | with Prince's usual impetuosity | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | past | the one | front of Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | the one not said here | front | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | past | the Prince not said here | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fix | past · passive | front | front's place | firmly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
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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