The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 99
His joy at seeing the Princess again was extreme, and he set to work with all his might to try to break her prison; but in spite of all his efforts he failed utterly.
Who acts: joy, Prince · What happens: see, be, set, work, try, break · To what, where: Princess, prison, spite, efforts
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 (joy, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 joy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 extreme | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 seeing | mark |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 joy | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seeing | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 seeing | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 extreme | cop |
| 9 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 extreme | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 might | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 might | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 might | nmod:poss |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 try | mark |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 break | mark |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 try | xcomp |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 prison | nmod:poss |
| 25 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 break | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 failed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 failed | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 spite | case |
| 29 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 failed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 efforts | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 efforts | det:predet |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 33 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spite | nmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 failed | nsubj |
| 35 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 extreme | conj |
| 36 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 35 failed | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 extreme | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Prince's joy not said here | the Princess | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | Prince's joy | extreme property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | princess's prison | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prison=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fail | past | Prince | spite of Prince's efforts | utterly property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in spite=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | joy | Prince | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | spite | Prince's efforts | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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