The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 18
The Prince was still sitting by the door and had been so happy in the maiden’s company that the time had seemed like a single hour.
Who acts: Prince, time · What happens: sit, be, have, seem · To what, where: company
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happy | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 happy | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sitting | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 company | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 company | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 maiden | case |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happy | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seemed | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 company | acl:relcl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 hour | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hour | det |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hour | amod |
| 27 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the Prince | still | by the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the Prince not said here | the maiden's company | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | the time not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | the time | the maiden's company | hour | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |
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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