The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 109
Prince Hyacinth, whose nose was now just like anyone’s else, did not fail to profit by the lesson he had received.
Who acts: Hyacinth · What happens: not fail, receive · To what, where: profit, lesson
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hyacinth), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hyacinth | compound |
| 2 | Hyacinth | Hyacinth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nose | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 nose | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hyacinth | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | cop |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 like | advmod |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 like | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 nose | acl:relcl |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 like | fixed |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 anyone | case |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 anyone | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fail | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fail | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fail | advmod |
| 16 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 profit | mark |
| 18 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fail | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 lesson | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lesson | det |
| 21 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fail | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 received | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 received | aux |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 lesson | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hyacinth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | past · do-support | profit | by the lesson | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | Hyacinth | the lesson not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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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