The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 31
The Prince made him a splendid present as a reward for this good news, and at once sent ambassadors to ask the Dear Little Princess in marriage.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: make, send, ask · To what, where: splendid present, man, ambassadors, Dear Little Princess
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 present | det |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 present | amod |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 reward | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reward | det |
| 10 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 news | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 news | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 news | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reward | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 sent | obl |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 20 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sent | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Princess | det |
| 24 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Princess | amod |
| 25 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Princess | amod |
| 26 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ask | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Princess | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Prince | a splendid present | man | as a reward for this good news | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary present=Product | ||
| 2 | send | past | ambassadors | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the Dear Little Princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=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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