The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 122
The prince advanced alone, and, resting his head against the stone, he burst into tears.
Who acts: prince · What happens: advance, rest, burst · To what, where: head, stone, tears
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | 3 advanced | nsubj |
| 3 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 advanced | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resting | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 resting | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resting | punct |
| 8 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 advanced | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burst | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 burst | nsubj |
| 16 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advanced | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 tears | case |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burst | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | the prince | alone property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | the prince not said here | prince's head | the stone | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme against stone=Location | |||
| 3 | burst | past | prince | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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