The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 44
‘I went nearer, and saw a silken cord hanging down to the ground, and pulled it just because it was so close to my hand.
Who acts: I, silken cord, cord · What happens: go, see, hang down, pull, be · To what, where: silken cord, cord
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, silken cord, cord), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cord | det |
| 9 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cord | amod |
| 10 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cord | acl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 hanging | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pulled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pulled | cc |
| 18 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pulled | obj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 close | advmod |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 close | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 close | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 close | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 close | advmod |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pulled | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 close | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I not said here | a silken cord | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hang down | gerund | a silken cord not said here | to the ground; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pull | past | I not said here | cord | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | cord | to my hand; close property | tree rules |
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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