The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 74
There Prince lay, as famished as ever, gnawing the carcase of a crow.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: lie, famish, gnaw · To what, where: carcase
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 famished | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 famished | advmod |
| 6 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lay | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 famished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gnawing | punct |
| 10 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carcase | det |
| 12 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gnawing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 crow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crow | det |
| 15 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carcase | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Prince | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | famish | participle | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gnaw | gerund | Prince not said here | the carcase of a crow | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcase=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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