The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 54
Labakan was greatly surprised and interested by this story, but after hearing it he could not help looking on Prince Omar with envious eyes, angry that his friend should have the position he himself longed so much for.
Who acts: Labakan, friend · What happens: be, hear, not help, look, have, long · To what, where: Story, position
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 (Labakan, friend), 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 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 interested | cc |
| 6 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surprised | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interested | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 hearing | mark |
| 13 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 help | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hearing | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 help | advmod |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | conj |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 help | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Omar | case |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Omar | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 looking | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 looking | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 angry | punct |
| 27 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 have | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 friend | nmod:poss |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 angry | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 position | det |
| 34 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 longed | nsubj |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 35 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 position | acl:relcl |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 much | advmod |
| 39 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 longed | advmod |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 longed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Labakan | greatly, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Labakan not said here | by this story | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | Labakan not said here | Story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not help | could | Labakan | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look not said to happen | gerund | Labakan not said here | with envious eyes; on Omar Prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on omar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | should | Labakan's friend | the position | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient | ||||
| 7 | long | past | friend | the position not said here | 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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