The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 45
Then the Prince, without even waiting to sheathe his sword, rushed back to the gazelle, crying:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: wait, sheathe, rush back, cry · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 waiting | mark |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sheathe | mark |
| 9 | sheathe | sheathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 waiting | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sheathe | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rushed | punct |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 rushed | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 gazelle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gazelle | det |
| 17 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crying | punct |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 waiting | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | the Prince | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sheathe | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | Prince's sword | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush back | past | the Prince not said here | to the gazelle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to gazelle=Result | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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