The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 32
The prince stayed here for two years; then he wished to go further.
Who acts: prince, Man · What happens: stay, wish, go
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Man), 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 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stayed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wished | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wished | xcomp |
| 14 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the prince | here | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Man | then | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Man not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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