The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 105

Prince Darling roared with anger when he heard this; but it was still worse for him when he reached the great square before his own palace.

Who acts: Prince Darling, Darling, deliverance · What happens: roar, hear, be, reach · To what, where: this, great square

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Darling, Darling, deliverance), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	compound
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 roared	nsubj
3	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 anger	case
5	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roared	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roared	advcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 heard	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 worse	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 worse	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worse	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worse	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 worse	advmod
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 roared	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worse	obl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worse	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 square	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 square	amod
23	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
24	before	before	ADP	_	27 palace	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 palace	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 palace	amod
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past	Prince Darling			with anger	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with anger=Theme
2	hear	past	Darling	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	is	past	deliverance		still	for Darling; bad property	tree rules
4	reach	past	Darling	the great square	before Darling's own palace		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent square=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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