The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 105
But nothing could move the prince, and seeing this the bird went on: “Well, so be it!
Who acts: nothing, seeing · What happens: move, see, go on, be · To what, where: prince, this, journey
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, seeing), 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 | _ | 4 move | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 move | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | aux |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 went | csubj |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 seeing | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 17 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 21 it | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 it | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 it | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | could | nothing | the prince | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme prince=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | seeing | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | journey | tree rules |
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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