The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 26
However, the Prince cracked the cherry-stone, but everyone laughed when he saw it contained only its own kernel.
Who acts: Prince, everyone, King, stone · What happens: crack, laugh, see, contain · To what, where: cherry stone, own kernel · 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 (Prince, everyone, King, stone), 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 | _ | 5 cracked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cracked | nsubj |
| 5 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 7 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stone | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cherry | punct |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cracked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 laughed | cc |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cracked | conj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laughed | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 contained | nsubj |
| 18 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 kernel | advmod |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kernel | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kernel | amod |
| 22 | kernel | kernel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 contained | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cracked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | past | the Prince | the cherry stone | however property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | contain | past | stone | stone's own kernel | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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