The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 51
The prince was going down a gravel walk with a quickset hedge on each side, and his eyes on the ground, and he was thinking of one thing and another.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go down, think · To what, where: gravel walk
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 walk | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 7 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | compound |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hedge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hedge | det |
| 11 | quickset | quickset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hedge | amod |
| 12 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hedge | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eyes | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 going | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thinking | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thinking | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thinking | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thinking | aux |
| 27 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 going | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 thing | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 thing | nummod |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thinking | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 another | cc |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 thing | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past · progressive | the prince | a gravel walk with a quickset hedge on each side | prince's eyes on the ground obl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient walk=Extent | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · progressive | prince | of one thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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