The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 9

Here the raven left him and he was handed over once more to the care of the first band of slaves, while a large bat flickered down and settled upon his head of its own accord, and so he was taken back to the marble bath, and had to go through the whole process again, only this time he began in deep water which receded daily inch by inch.

Who acts: raven, large bat, Prince, deep water, first band · What happens: leave, hand over, flicker down, settle, take back, have · To what, where: Prince, marble bath, whole process, time, deep water, daily inch

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 (raven, large bat, Prince, deep water), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 raven	det
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 handed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 handed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 handed	aux:pass
9	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	conj
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 handed	compound:prt
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 handed	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 care	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 care	det
15	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 handed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 band	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 band	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 band	amod
19	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 care	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 slaves	case
21	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 band	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flickered	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 flickered	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bat	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bat	amod
26	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flickered	nsubj
27	flickered	flicker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	parataxis
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 flickered	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 settled	cc
30	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flickered	conj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 settled	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 accord	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 accord	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 accord	amod
37	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 head	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 taken	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 taken	cc
40	so	so	ADV	_	43 taken	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 taken	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 taken	aux:pass
43	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	conj
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 taken	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 bath	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 bath	det
47	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bath	compound
48	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taken	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 had	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 had	cc
51	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 go	mark
53	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 had	xcomp
54	through	through	ADP	_	57 process	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 process	det
56	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 process	amod
57	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 go	obl
58	again	again	ADV	_	53 go	advmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 time	punct
60	only	only	ADV	_	62 time	advmod
61	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	62 time	det
62	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 go	obl:unmarked
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 began	nsubj
64	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 time	acl:relcl
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 water	case
66	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 water	amod
67	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 began	obl
68	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 receded	nsubj
69	receded	recede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 water	acl:relcl
70	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 inch	amod
71	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 receded	obj
72	by	by	ADP	_	73 inch	case
73	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 receded	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the raven	Prince	here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	hand over	past · passive		Prince			to the care of the first band of slaves	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination more=Theme
3	flicker down	participle	a large bat					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	settle	past	a large bat not said here				upon Prince's head of raven's own accord	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take back	past · passive		Prince	the marble bath			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bath=Destination
6	have	past	the raven not said here					tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	the raven not said here		the whole process	again; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through process=Initial_Location
8	begin	past	Prince	this time not said here	deep water			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality
9	recede	past	deep water	daily inch			by inch	tree rules
10	care		the first band of slaves					nom care «act 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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