The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 26
The unfortunate prince declared that he had never made any such boast as was reported; but it was all in vain.
Who acts: unfortunate prince, prince, boast · What happens: declare, not make, report, be · To what, where: such boast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unfortunate prince, prince, boast), 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 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 declared | ccomp |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 boast | det |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boast | amod |
| 12 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 reported | mark |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reported | aux:pass |
| 15 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boast | acl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 vain | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 vain | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 vain | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 vain | cop |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 vain | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 vain | case |
| 22 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 declared | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the unfortunate prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not make | past · perfect | prince | any such boast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Product | ||||
| 3 | report | past · passive | any such boast not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | is | past | boast | all, vain property | tree rules |
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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