The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 63
The prince ordered a boat to be lowered, and went on shore to look about him, and it was not long before he noticed the two beautiful trees, quite different from any that grew in Greece.
Who acts: prince, boat, that · What happens: order, lower, go, look, not be, notice · To what, where: boat, shore, two beautiful trees, Greece
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, boat, that), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lowered | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lowered | aux:pass |
| 8 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | advcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 long | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 long | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 noticed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 noticed | nsubj |
| 26 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 trees | det |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 trees | nummod |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 trees | amod |
| 30 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 noticed | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 different | punct |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 different | advmod |
| 33 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 trees | amod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 any | case |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 different | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 grew | nsubj |
| 37 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 different | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Greece | case |
| 39 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 grew | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the prince | a boat | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boat=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lower not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a boat not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the prince not said here | shore | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | about Prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | boat | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | notice | past | Prince | the two beautiful trees | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | grow | past | that | Greece | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location |
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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