The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 17
As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did not hunt the next morning, but, instead, began to explore the castle.
Who acts: prince · What happens: last, not hunt, be, explore · To what, where: keys, many days, castle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 began | cop |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 food | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 last | mark |
| 7 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 food | acl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 last | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 last | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hunt | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hunt | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hunt | advmod |
| 17 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 days | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 morning | amod |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunt | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 but | punct |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 26 began | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 instead | punct |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 explore | mark |
| 28 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 castle | det |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 explore | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | to-infinitive | keys = key | day | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value | ||||
| 2 | not hunt | past · do-support | the prince | many days not said here | morning | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | begin, instead property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | explore | to-infinitive | the castle | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent castle=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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