The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 121
The prince was frightened, but he was afraid to say anything, and Seven Inches made him sit down to dinner between himself and his bride; and he’d be as happy as the day is long, only for the sight of the stone men in the corner.
Who acts: marble, Seven Inches · What happens: frighten, be, say, make, sit down, sight · To what, where: prince, anything, marble, stone men · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (marble, Seven Inches), 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 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 afraid | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frightened | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 afraid | xcomp |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 15 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Inches | nummod |
| 16 | Inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sit | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dinner | case |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sit | obl |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 dinner | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bride | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bride | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 himself | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 long | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 happy | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 happy | nsubj |
| 31 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 happy | cop |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 happy | cop |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 happy | advmod |
| 34 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 long | csubj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 day | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 day | det |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 happy | obl |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 long | cop |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frightened | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sight | punct |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 sight | advmod |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 sight | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sight | det |
| 44 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 long | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 men | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 men | det |
| 47 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 men | compound |
| 48 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sight | nmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 corner | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 corner | det |
| 51 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 men | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | marble | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | marble not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Seven Inches | marble | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit down | infinitive | marble not said here | to dinner between marble | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | marble | day | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | is | present | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | sight | the stone men in the corner | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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