The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 107
The prince ruled the country and never even thought of marrying.
Who acts: prince · What happens: rule, not think · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ruled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 thought | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ruled | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 marrying | case |
| 11 | marrying | marrying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the prince | the country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | participle | the prince not said here | of marrying | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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