The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 20
This time the Prince was so late that he did not try to meet his brothers at their castle, so they thought he could not be coming, and were rather glad of it, and displayed their pieces of muslin to the King proudly, feeling sure of success.
Who acts: time, goodness, Prince · What happens: be, not try, meet, think, not come, display · To what, where: brothers, castle, pieces, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, goodness, 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 late | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 time | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 late | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 late | advmod |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 try | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 try | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 try | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 try | advmod |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 late | csubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 try | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 castle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 thought | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 late | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 coming | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 coming | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 coming | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 coming | aux |
| 28 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 glad | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 glad | cc |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 glad | cop |
| 32 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 33 glad | advmod |
| 33 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thought | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 glad | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 displayed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 displayed | cc |
| 38 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 late | parataxis |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 40 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 displayed | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 muslin | case |
| 42 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pieces | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 King | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 King | det |
| 45 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 displayed | obl |
| 46 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 38 displayed | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 feeling | punct |
| 48 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 displayed | conj |
| 49 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 feeling | xcomp |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 success | case |
| 51 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sure | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this time | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not try | past · do-support | goodness | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | goodness not said here | goodness's brothers | Prince's castle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not come | could · progressive | goodness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Prince not said here | of castle; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | display | past | Prince's pieces of muslin | the King | proudly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 8 | feel | gerund | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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