More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 43
The young Prince leaves this young gentleman in all his glory, and he tells the young Prince before leaving that he will see him again before long.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince · What happens: leave, tell, see, glory · To what, where: young gentleman, glory, young Prince, gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leaves | nsubj |
| 4 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 gentleman | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gentleman | amod |
| 7 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaves | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 glory | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 glory | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 glory | nmod:poss |
| 11 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaves | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tells | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tells | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tells | nsubj |
| 15 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaves | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Prince | amod |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tells | obj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 leaving | mark |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tells | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 leaving | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 see | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 see | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | the young Prince | this young gentleman | Prince's glory | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme in glory=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Prince | the young Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | future | Prince | gentleman | again | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | glory | Prince | nom glory «state 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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