More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 78

The poor young Prince says, "No, I am not hungry; but I was very frightened when I saw you coming to me first, as I had no place to run away from you."

Who acts: poor young Prince, you · What happens: say, not be, be, see, come, have · To what, where: you, poor young Prince, place · 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 (poor young Prince, you), 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	4 Prince	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Prince	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Prince	amod
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
8	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	13 hungry	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hungry	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hungry	advmod
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 frightened	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 frightened	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 frightened	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 frightened	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 frightened	advmod
19	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	parataxis
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 frightened	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 saw	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 coming	obl
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 coming	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 frightened	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 run	mark
35	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 place	acl
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 run	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 run	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 frightened	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the poor young Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	present	the poor young Prince = prince			hungry property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	the poor young Prince = prince			frightened property	tree rules
4	see in a quote	past	the poor young Prince = prince	you			tree rules
5	come in a quote	gerund	you not said here		the poor young Prince = prince	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
6	have in a quote	past	the poor young Prince = prince	no place			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
7	run away in a quote	to-infinitive	the poor young Prince = prince not said here	no place not said here		from you; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory

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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