The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 12

For the next few weeks little was seen of the prince, who spent all his days in hunting, and trying to forget the old wife at home.

Who acts: prince · What happens: see, spend, try, forget · To what, where: hunting, old wife, home

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weeks	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obl
6	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 seen	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 prince	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spent	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 spent	nsubj
14	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prince	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 days	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 days	nmod:poss
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spent	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 hunting	case
19	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spent	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trying	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 trying	cc
22	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seen	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 forget	mark
24	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trying	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wife	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wife	amod
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forget	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 home	case
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forget	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive				week	of the prince; little property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
2	spend	past	the prince		hunting	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	try	gerund						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	forget not said to happen	to-infinitive		the old wife	home			tree rules

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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