The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 52
This was certainly not what the prince had expected to hear.
Who acts: This, prince · What happens: not be, expect, hear · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | aux |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 expected | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | This | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | past · perfect · passive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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