The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 15
Now Prince Ratibor was still spending his life in wandering about the woods, and not even the beauty of the spring could soothe his grief.
Who acts: Ratibor, beauty · What happens: spend, wonder, soothe · To what, where: life, grief
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ratibor, beauty), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Ratibor | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ratibor | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Ratibor | Ratibor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spending | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spending | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 spending | advmod |
| 6 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spending | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 wandering | mark |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spending | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wandering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 soothe | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 soothe | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 beauty | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 beauty | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beauty | det |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 soothe | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spring | det |
| 22 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beauty | nmod |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 soothe | aux |
| 24 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spending | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 grief | nmod:poss |
| 26 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 soothe | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · progressive | Ratibor Prince | Ratibor's life | still | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Ratibor Prince not said here | about the woods | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | soothe | could | the beauty of the spring | Ratibor's grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=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 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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