The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 53
The prince called to him to say no more as he had proved his innocence.
Who acts: servant · What happens: call, say, prove · To what, where: prince, servant, more, innocence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prince | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 say | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 proved | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 proved | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 proved | aux |
| 13 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 more | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proved | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the prince not said here | servant | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prove | past · perfect | servant | servant's innocence | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Theme |
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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