More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 90
The young Prince was always very sociable and merry, only when he thought of the gold watch he had from the young Princess in the castle, and which he had lost he knew not where.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince · What happens: be, think, have, lose, not know · To what, where: castle · 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 | 7 sociable | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sociable | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 sociable | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sociable | advmod |
| 7 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 merry | cc |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sociable | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 thought | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 thought | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sociable | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 watch | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 watch | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watch | compound |
| 18 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Princess | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princess | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Princess | amod |
| 24 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lost | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lost | cc |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lost | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 lost | aux |
| 33 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thought | conj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 lost | conj |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 knew | advmod |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 knew | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sociable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Prince | always, sociable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the young Prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Prince | the castle | of the gold watch; from the young Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect · passive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | not know | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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