The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 19

The little Prince had large blue eyes, the prettiest eyes in the world, and a sweet little mouth, but, alas! his nose was so enormous that it covered half his face.

Who acts: little Prince, nose · What happens: have, be, cover · To what, where: large blue eyes, face

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 (little Prince, nose), 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	3 Prince	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Prince	amod
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
10	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eyes	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mouth	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mouth	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mouth	det
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mouth	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mouth	amod
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 enormous	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 enormous	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 alas	punct
24	alas	alas	INTJ	_	30 enormous	discourse
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 alas	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nose	nmod:poss
27	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enormous	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 enormous	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 enormous	advmod
30	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 covered	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 covered	nsubj
33	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 enormous	advcl
34	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	36 face	det:predet
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 face	nmod:poss
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the little Prince	large blue eyes and the prettiest eyes in the world	a sweet little mouth obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	is	past	Prince's nose		enormous property	tree rules
3	cover	past	nose	Prince's face		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination

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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