The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 54
However, he did not cease from continuing his way; a young and amorous prince is always valiant.
Who acts: Scarce, young prince · What happens: not cease, continue, be · To what, where: way
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 (Scarce, young 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 cease | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cease | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cease | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cease | advmod |
| 6 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 continuing | mark |
| 8 | continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cease | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continuing | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 valiant | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prince | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 amorous | cc |
| 15 | amorous | amorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 young | conj |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 valiant | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 valiant | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 valiant | advmod |
| 19 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cease | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | past · do-support | Scarce | however property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | continue | gerund | Scarce not said here | Scarce's way | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a young prince | always, valiant property | 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 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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