The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 130
The Prince was ashamed of having forgotten his promise and set out at once, and by great good fortune reached the hut when the old woman was away.
Who acts: Prince, old woman · What happens: be, forget, set out, reach, promise · To what, where: promise, hut
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, old woman), 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 ashamed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | cop |
| 4 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 forgotten | mark |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 forgotten | aux |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ashamed | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forgotten | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgotten | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reached | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 fortune | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fortune | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fortune | amod |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obl |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 away | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 away | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 away | cop |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 reached | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | gerund · perfect | the Prince not said here | prince's promise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | the Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | the Prince not said here | the hut | by great good fortune | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | the old woman | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | promise | prince | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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