The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 39
Prince Ring had heard so much about the beauty and goodness of Princess Signy that he determined to marry her if possible.
Who acts: Prince Ring, Ring · What happens: hear, determine, marry · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ring, Ring), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ring | compound |
| 2 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beauty | det |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 goodness | cc |
| 11 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beauty | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beauty | nmod |
| 14 | Signy | Signy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | flat |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 determined | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 determined | nsubj |
| 17 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 determined | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 possible | mark |
| 22 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 marry | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | Prince Ring | about the beauty of Princess and goodness | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | Ring | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | Ring not said here | princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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