The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 78
They then thanked him for his kind hospitality and went on their journey, much regretted by Prince, who sat with a woeful expression and whined on the shore as long as he could see a flip of the boat’s white sail in the distance.
Who acts: students, Prince · What happens: thank, go, regret, sit, whine, see · To what, where: Prince, journey, shore, flip, white sail
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (students, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hospitality | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hospitality | amod |
| 8 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regretted | punct |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 regretted | advmod |
| 16 | regretted | regret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Prince | case |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 regretted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Prince | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 expression | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 expression | det |
| 24 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 expression | amod |
| 25 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 whined | cc |
| 27 | whined | whine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 regretted | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shore | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shore | det |
| 30 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 whined | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 long | advmod |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 whined | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 long | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 flip | det |
| 38 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sail | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 boat | det |
| 41 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sail | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 boat | case |
| 43 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sail | amod |
| 44 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flip | nmod |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 distance | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 distance | det |
| 47 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sail | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | students = student | Prince | then | for Prince's kind hospitality | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for hospitality=Attribute | ||
| 2 | go | past | students = student not said here | students's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 3 | regret | participle | by Prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | Prince | with a woeful expression | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | whine | participle | the shore | long property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | could | Prince | a flip of the boat's white sail in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flip=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | journey | students = student | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | flip | the boat's white sail in the distance | nom flip «act 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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