The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 95

The Prince, who was no longer hungry, grew so impatient at the Fairy’s continual remarks about his nose that at last he threw himself upon his horse and rode hastily away.

Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: be, grow, throw, ride, remark · To what, where: nose, last

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, Fairy), 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	10 grew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hungry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Prince	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 impatient	advmod
12	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	18 remarks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 remarks	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Fairy	case
17	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 remarks	amod
18	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 impatient	obl
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 nose	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nose	nmod:poss
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remarks	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 threw	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	nsubj
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 nose	acl:relcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 threw	obj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 horse	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 horse	nmod:poss
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rode	cc
32	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 threw	conj
33	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	34 away	advmod
34	away	away	ADV	_	32 rode	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince			hungry, long property	tree rules
2	grow	past	the Prince			impatient property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	past	Prince	Prince's nose	last	upon Prince's horse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination himself=Theme
4	ride	past	Prince not said here			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	remark		the Fairy			about Prince's nose	nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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