The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 13
Every one Prince alone excepted, thought she was a clever beast; but Prince barked at her, for he had now got a rival.
Who acts: one Prince, cow, Prince · What happens: except, think, be, bark, get · To what, where: clever beast, rival · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one Prince, cow, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | compound |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 excepted | nsubj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 excepted | advmod |
| 5 | excepted | except | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excepted | conj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beast | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beast | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 11 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beast | amod |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 barked | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 barked | cc |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 barked | nsubj |
| 16 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excepted | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 barked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 got | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 got | advmod |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 barked | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rival | det |
| 26 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 excepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | past | every one Prince | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | every one Prince not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | cow | a clever beast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bark | past | Prince | at cow | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | get | past · perfect | Prince | a rival | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rival=Stimulus |
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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