The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 81
The young prince was thankful that his stepfather was going to the war, and secretly hoped he might never come back.
Who acts: young prince, stepfather · What happens: be, go, hope, not come back · To what, where: war · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, stepfather), 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 | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thankful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thankful | cop |
| 5 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stepfather | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stepfather | stepfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thankful | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 war | det |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hoped | cc |
| 16 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 17 hoped | advmod |
| 17 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thankful | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hoped | ccomp |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thankful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young prince | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | prince's stepfather | the war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hope | past | the young prince not said here | secretly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not come back | might | stepfather | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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