The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 19
However, he received them graciously, but found it impossible to choose between them.
Who acts: prince, hand · What happens: receive, find, choose · To what, where: ladies, hand
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, hand), 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 | _ | 4 received | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | obj |
| 6 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 4 received | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 choose | mark |
| 13 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 impossible | xcomp |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | prince | ladies = lady | graciously, however property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | prince not said here | hand | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | choose | to-infinitive | hand not said here | between ladies = lady | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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