The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 14
One night the prince returned after a longer chase than usual, and he was so tired that he went up straight to bed.
Who acts: prince · What happens: return, be, go up
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 chase | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chase | det |
| 8 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 chase | amod |
| 9 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 usual | case |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chase | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tired | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tired | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tired | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tired | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 tired | advmod |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 returned | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tired | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 went | compound:prt |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 bed | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the prince | after a longer chase than usual; night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | prince | to bed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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