The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 78
The prince accepted gratefully the eagle’s invitation, for he was tired and hungry.
Who acts: prince, eagle · What happens: accept, be, invite · To what, where: invitation
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, eagle), 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 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 3 accepted | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invitation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 eagle | case |
| 8 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 tired | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 accepted | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hungry | cc |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tired | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the prince | the eagle's invitation | gratefully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Prince | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | invite | the eagle | nom invitation «communication 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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