The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 104
Full of doubt and fear, the Prince let some time pass before he was bold enough to attempt to rescue the maiden.
Who acts: Prince, time · What happens: let, pass, be, attempt, rescue · To what, where: maiden
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, time), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 doubt | case |
| 3 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fear | cc |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubt | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Full | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | nsubj |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | ccomp |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 bold | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bold | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bold | cop |
| 16 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pass | advcl |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 bold | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 attempt | mark |
| 19 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bold | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 rescue | mark |
| 21 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 attempt | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rescue | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | present | some time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | bold, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | attempt | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | rescue not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the maiden | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
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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