The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 59
Then the Prince went back into his room again, and began to hum and to sing.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go back, begin, hum, sing · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hum | mark |
| 14 | hum | hum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sing | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sing | mark |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hum | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the Prince | Prince's room | then; again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the Prince not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hum | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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