The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 64
‘At these words the great Bird snatched me up, regardless of my cries, and flew off at a terrific pace--’
Who acts: words, my · What happens: snatch up, fly off, cry · To what, where: me
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 (words, my), 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 | _ | 8 snatched | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 snatched | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bird | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bird | amod |
| 7 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 words | appos |
| 8 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 snatched | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 snatched | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cries | punct |
| 12 | regardless | regardless | ADV | _ | 15 cries | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cries | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cries | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 snatched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flew | cc |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 snatched | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 flew | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 pace | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pace | det |
| 22 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pace | amod |
| 23 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 snatched | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | past | this words | me | of my cries | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of cry=Source | |||
| 2 | fly off | past | this words not said here | at a terrific pace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry | my | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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