The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 89
After hearing this, the Prince wondered how he could get a message conveyed to Finland.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: hear, wonder, get, convey · To what, where: this, message, Finland · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wondered | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wondered | nsubj |
| 7 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 get | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wondered | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 message | det |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 message | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Finland | case |
| 16 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 conveyed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Prince not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the Prince | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | could | prince | a message | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | convey | participle | a message not said here | Finland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to finland=Recipient |
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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