The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 24
But, do what they would, they were nothing by comparison with the Prince’s.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: do, be · To what, where: nothing
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 (ladies), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 do | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 would | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 nothing | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 nothing | cop |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 do | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 comparison | case |
| 12 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comparison | nmod |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | ladies = lady | nothing | by comparison with the Prince | tree rules |
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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