The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 126

So poor Prince Darling was terribly hungry all day long, but he was very patient about it.

Who acts: poor Prince Darling, Darling · What happens: be

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 (poor 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Darling	amod
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Darling	compound
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hungry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
6	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 long	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hungry	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 patient	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 patient	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 patient	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 patient	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 patient	advmod
16	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hungry	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 patient	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	poor Prince Darling					hungry, long, terribly property	tree rules
2	is	past	Darling					about care; patient 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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