The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 28
Now, she was the daughter of a great king, and would some day possess several kingdoms herself; but Prince Hyacinth had not a thought to spare for anything of that sort, he was so much struck with her beauty.
Who acts: Queen, Prince Hyacinth · What happens: be, possess, have, spare, strike · To what, where: daughter, several kingdoms, thought, Hyacinth
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 (Queen, Prince 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 daughter | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 possess | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 possess | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 possess | aux |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 possess | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | parataxis |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kingdoms | amod |
| 18 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 possess | obj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 kingdoms | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hyacinth | compound |
| 23 | Hyacinth | Hyacinth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 possess | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 thought | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thought | det |
| 27 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 spare | mark |
| 29 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 thought | acl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 anything | case |
| 31 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 spare | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sort | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 sort | det |
| 34 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 anything | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 struck | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 struck | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 struck | aux:pass |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 much | advmod |
| 39 | much | much | ADV | _ | 40 struck | advmod |
| 40 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 had | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 beauty | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 43 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 struck | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Queen | the daughter | now | of a great king | tree rules | ||
| 2 | possess | would | several kingdoms Queen | day | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Prince Hyacinth | a thought | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive | Prince Hyacinth not said here | a thought not said here | for anything | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | strike | past · passive | Hyacinth | with Queen's beauty | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with beauty=Instrument |
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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