The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 42
So that even if the prince did succeed in getting there, he could never understand what the owl said.
Who acts: prince, owl · What happens: succeed, get, not understand, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, owl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 understand | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 succeed | mark |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 succeed | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 succeed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 succeed | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 succeed | aux |
| 8 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 understand | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 getting | mark |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 succeed | advcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 getting | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 succeed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 understand | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 understand | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 understand | advmod |
| 16 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 said | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 owl | det |
| 19 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 understand | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · do-support | the prince | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the prince not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not understand | could | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the owl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/42/