The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 60
But when the prince stood before the girl, who was so much more beautiful than anything he had ever dreamed of, he lost all his courage, and stood with bent head before her.
Who acts: prince, girl, palace · What happens: stand, be, dream, lose · To what, where: courage
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, girl, palace), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 lost | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | advcl |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 anything | case |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dreamed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dreamed | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 dreamed | advmod |
| 21 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 anything | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dreamed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 courage | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 courage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stood | cc |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 33 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 head | amod |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | obl |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stood | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the prince | before the girl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before girl=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the girl | than anything; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dream | past · perfect | palace | ever | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose | past | palace | palace's courage | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | palace not said here | before head | with bent head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=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 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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