The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 33
The Prince hastily stopped up his ears, but even then the sight of these comical musicians sent him into fits of laughter.
Who acts: Prince, sight · What happens: stop up, send, sight · To what, where: ears, end, fits, comical musicians
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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, sight), 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 | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 stopped | advmod |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stopped | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 then | advmod |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sent | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 musicians | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 musicians | det |
| 16 | comical | comical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 musicians | amod |
| 17 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sight | nmod |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 fits | case |
| 21 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 laughter | case |
| 23 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fits | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop up | past | the Prince | end's ears | hastily property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Destination | |||
| 2 | send | past | the sight of this comical musicians | end | fits of laughter | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | sight | this comical musicians | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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