The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 46
The prince had no sooner grown out of boyhood than he prevailed on his father to make war during the summer months on a neighbouring nation, so as to give him a chance of making himself famous.
Who acts: prince, chance · What happens: have, grow out, prevail, make, neighbour, give · To what, where: boyhood, war, neighbouring nation, chance, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, chance), 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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 sooner | det |
| 5 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 grown | advmod |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 boyhood | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 boyhood | case |
| 9 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grown | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 prevailed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prevailed | nsubj |
| 12 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prevailed | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prevailed | advcl |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 months | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 months | det |
| 21 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 months | compound |
| 22 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 nation | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 nation | det |
| 25 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 nation | amod |
| 26 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 give | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 give | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 give | mark |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 give | mark |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 chance | det |
| 34 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 give | obj |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 making | mark |
| 36 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 chance | acl |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 making | obj |
| 38 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 making | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow out | participle | the prince not said here | boyhood | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boyhood=Theme | |||
| 3 | prevail | past | Prince | on Prince's father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on father=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | war | a neighbouring nation | month | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product | ||
| 5 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | a chance | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 7 | make | gerund | a chance not said here | Prince | famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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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