The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 55
But during his long absence the prince seemed to have changed his character altogether.
Who acts: prince, father · What happens: seem, change, absent · To what, where: character
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 seemed | cc |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 absence | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 absence | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 absence | amod |
| 5 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 changed | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 changed | aux |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 character | nmod:poss |
| 13 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obj |
| 14 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 11 changed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the prince | during father's long absence | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive · perfect | the prince not said here | father's character | altogether property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient | |||
| 3 | absent | father | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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