The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 56
“Your father, I dare say, got something to eat when he was hungry!” interrupted the Prince.
Who acts: father · What happens: dare, say, get, eat, be, interrupt · To what, where: something, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dare | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dare | nsubj |
| 6 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | parataxis |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 hungry | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hungry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hungry | cop |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 interrupted | advcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 19 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 interrupted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | present | Your father | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Your father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | father | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | interrupt | past | 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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