The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 9
With this news the prince was satisfied, and begged his countryman to show him the way to the young queen’s palace.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, beg, show · To what, where: countryman, way, city
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 satisfied | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 satisfied | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 countryman | nmod:poss |
| 12 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 queen | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 queen | amod |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 queen | case |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | with this news; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the prince not said here | city's countryman | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent countryman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the way | city | to the young queen's palace | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic |
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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