The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 6
At the sight of it all the slaves fell upon their knees and hid their faces, and when it had three times flapped its mighty wings it uttered distinctly in Prince Vivien’s own language the words:
Who acts: slaves, impatience · What happens: fall, hide, have, flap, utter, sight · To what, where: sight, faces, mighty wings, own language, impatience
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 (slaves, impatience), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 slaves | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slaves | det |
| 8 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 knees | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knees | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hid | cc |
| 14 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 faces | nmod:poss |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hid | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flapped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flapped | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 had | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flapped | advcl |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flapped | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wings | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wings | amod |
| 27 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flapped | obj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 uttered | nsubj |
| 29 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flapped | conj |
| 30 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 29 uttered | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 language | case |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Vivien | nmod:desc |
| 33 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 language | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Vivien | case |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 language | amod |
| 36 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 uttered | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 words | det |
| 38 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 language | conj |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | all slaves | the sight of impatience | upon slaves's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | |||
| 2 | hide | past | all slaves not said here | slaves's faces | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | impatience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | flap | past | all slaves not said here | impatience's mighty wings | time | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 5 | utter speech: other | past | impatience | Vivien Prince's own language and the words | distinctly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | sight | impatience | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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