The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 45
Unhappily, the hermit was not really as holy as he seemed; for no sooner did he see the princess than he fell in love with her wonderful beauty, and began to plot in his heart how he could win her for his wife.
Who acts: hermit, rajah · What happens: not be, seem, see, fall, begin, plot · To what, where: princess, love, heart
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 (hermit, rajah), 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 | Unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 9 holy | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unhappily | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hermit | det |
| 4 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 holy | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 holy | advmod |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 holy | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 holy | advmod |
| 9 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seemed | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 sooner | det |
| 16 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 fell | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 beauty | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 beauty | amod |
| 30 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 began | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 began | cc |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seemed | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 plot | mark |
| 35 | plot | plot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 began | xcomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 plot | obl |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 win | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 win | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 win | aux |
| 42 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 plot | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 win | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 wife | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 wife | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 win | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the hermit | holy, unhappily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | rajah | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past · do-support | rajah | the princess | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | fall | past | rajah | love | with princess's wonderful beauty | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | begin | past | rajah not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | plot | to-infinitive | rajah not said here | rajah's heart | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heart=Destination | ||||
| 7 | win | could | rajah | princess | for rajah's wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |
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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