The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 81
When I went to his Court he was only a little boy, but that is forty years ago, and I have been in this desolate place ever since.
Who acts: I, father, that · What happens: go, be, desolate · To what, where: Court, little boy, desolate place
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 (I, father, that), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Court | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Court | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 boy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boy | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 boy | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ago | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ago | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 ago | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ago | cop |
| 17 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 place | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 place | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 place | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 place | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 place | det |
| 27 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 place | compound |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 since | advmod |
| 30 | since | since | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | father's Court | since property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | father | a little boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | year | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | present · perfect | I | this desolate place | 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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