The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 117
Prince Darling, who saw what was going on, at first felt quite pleased to think that he should be delivered from his persecutor, but soon thought better of it and wished that he were free.
Who acts: Prince Darling, Darling · What happens: see, go on, feel, think, deliver, wish · To what, where: Darling, persecutor · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 going | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 felt | mark |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 felt | advmod |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pleased | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 delivered | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 delivered | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 delivered | aux:pass |
| 22 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 think | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 persecutor | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 persecutor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | persecutor | persecutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 delivered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 thought | cc |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 thought | advmod |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 thought | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 better | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wished | cc |
| 34 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 free | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 free | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 free | cop |
| 38 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wished | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince Darling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | feel | past | Prince Darling not said here | first, pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Prince Darling not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | deliver | should · passive | Darling | Darling's persecutor | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from persecutor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | good, soon property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | wish | past | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | Darling | free property | 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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