The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 86
This the Prince did, and what a quantity of gold and silver he saw!
Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, see · To what, where: quantity
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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Prince | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 what | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quantity | det |
| 9 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quantity | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quantity | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quantity | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | a quantity of gold and silver not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quantity=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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