The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 40
The new prince excited a good deal of curiosity where ever he went, for his splendid robe and majestic manner did not seem quite suitable to a person travelling on foot.
Who acts: Prince, person · What happens: go, not seem, travel · To what, where: foot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, person), 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 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 curiosity | case |
| 9 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seem | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 went | advmod |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seem | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 robe | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 robe | nmod:poss |
| 17 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robe | amod |
| 18 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seem | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 manner | cc |
| 20 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 manner | amod |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 robe | conj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seem | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 seem | advmod |
| 24 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 deal | parataxis |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 suitable | advmod |
| 26 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 seem | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 person | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 person | det |
| 29 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suitable | obl |
| 30 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 person | acl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 foot | case |
| 32 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 travelling | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | ever | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not seem | past · do-support | of curiosity; for Prince's splendid robe and majestic manner; suitable property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | gerund | a person not said here | foot | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
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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