The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 50
The Prince was at a stand, not knowing what to believe, when a very good countryman spake to him thus:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, not know, believe · To what, where: stand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 stand | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stand | det |
| 6 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knowing | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 knowing | advmod |
| 9 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stand | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 believe | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 believe | mark |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knowing | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spake | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 spake | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spake | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 good | advmod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spake | amod |
| 18 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spake | compound |
| 19 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spake | nmod |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 spake | advmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | a stand and a good countryman spake to ogre | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | believe | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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