The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 54
The Prince tried to jump in after her, but his men held him back, and in spite of his struggles led him home, where for six weeks he shut himself up in a secret chamber, and would neither eat nor drink, so great was his grief.
Who acts: Prince, men · What happens: try, jump in, hold back, lead, shut up, eat · To what, where: prince, spite, secret chamber, great grief, struggles
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, men), 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 | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 jump | mark |
| 5 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 jump | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jump | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 held | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 led | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 spite | case |
| 19 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 struggles | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 struggles | nmod:poss |
| 22 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spite | nmod |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 led | obj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 led | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shut | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 shut | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 weeks | case |
| 29 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 weeks | nummod |
| 30 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 shut | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shut | nsubj |
| 32 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 led | conj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 shut | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 shut | compound:prt |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 chamber | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 chamber | det |
| 37 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 chamber | amod |
| 38 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shut | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 eat | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 eat | cc |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 eat | aux |
| 42 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 43 eat | advmod |
| 43 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 44 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 45 drink | cc |
| 45 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 43 eat | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 great | punct |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 great | advmod |
| 48 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 grief | amod |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 grief | cop |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 grief | nmod:poss |
| 51 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 eat | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the Prince | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | jump in not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | after horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold back | past | prince's men | prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | prince | spite of prince's struggles | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in spite=Destination | |||
| 5 | shut up | past | prince | prince | a secret chamber | week | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 6 | eat | would | neither property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | drink | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is a | past | prince's great grief | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | spite | prince's struggles | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | struggle | prince | nom struggle «act intransitive»: 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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