The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 85
The prince got up at once and went to a brook which he heard gurgling near at hand.
Who acts: prince, brook · What happens: get up, go, hear, gurgle · To what, where: brook, hand
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, brook), 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 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brook | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brook | det |
| 11 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brook | acl:relcl |
| 15 | gurgling | gurgle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 heard | xcomp |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gurgling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the prince not said here | a brook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Prince | a brook | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gurgle | gerund | a brook not said here | hand | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hand=Location |
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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