The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 123
Prince Darling, delighted by the change, frisked about the keeper, showing his joy in every way he could, and the man, taking him up in his arms, carried him to the King, to whom he told the whole story.
Who acts: change, Darling · What happens: delight, frisk, show, take up, carry, tell · To what, where: Prince Darling, change, joy, Darling, arms, King · 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 (change, 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 | 4 delighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
| 4 | delighted | delight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 change | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 change | det |
| 7 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frisked | punct |
| 9 | frisked | frisk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 change | acl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 keeper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 keeper | det |
| 12 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frisked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 showing | punct |
| 14 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 joy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showing | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showing | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 man | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 taking | punct |
| 27 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 taking | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 taking | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 arms | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 arms | nmod:poss |
| 32 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 taking | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 carried | punct |
| 34 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 carried | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 King | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 King | det |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 carried | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 whom | punct |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 whom | case |
| 41 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 carried | advcl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 told | nsubj |
| 43 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 whom | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 story | det |
| 45 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 story | amod |
| 46 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 told | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | participle · passive | the change | Prince Darling | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | frisk | participle | the change not said here | about the keeper | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | the change not said here | Darling's joy | in every way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent joy=Patient in way=Topic | |||
| 4 | take up | gerund | the change not said here | Darling | Darling's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 5 | carry | past | Darling | the King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | Darling | the whole story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | joy | Darling | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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