The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 113
The prince was hungry enough, but he was too mannerly to eat without being invited.
Who acts: prince, dinner · What happens: be, eat, invite
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, dinner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mannerly | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mannerly | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mannerly | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mannerly | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 mannerly | advmod |
| 11 | mannerly | mannerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hungry | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mannerly | xcomp |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 invited | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 invited | aux:pass |
| 16 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eat | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | enough, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dinner | mannerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | dinner not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | invite | gerund · passive | dinner not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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