The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 81
The prince was young and a little timid, so he made no objections, and seated Peppina in the carriage beside him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, make, seat · To what, where: objections, Peppina, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | 4 young | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 timid | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 timid | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 timid | amod |
| 8 | timid | timid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 young | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 made | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 objections | det |
| 14 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seated | cc |
| 17 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 18 | Peppina | Peppina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seated | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 carriage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 carriage | det |
| 21 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seated | obl |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Prince | no objections | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | Prince not said here | Peppina | the carriage | beside Prince | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent peppina=Value in carriage=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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