The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 70
“Well!” he thought, as he ate his supper, “I’m very glad I came here.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: think, eat, be, come · To what, where: supper · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 thought | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ate | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 ate | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 supper | nmod:poss |
| 12 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 16 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 glad | advmod |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ate | advcl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | ccomp |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | Prince | Prince's supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Prince | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | Prince | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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