The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 137

For the first time the Prince regretted that he was no longer the monster, then he would have been able to rescue Celia; now he could only bark feebly at the people who were carrying her off, and try to follow them, but they chased and kicked him away.

Who acts: Prince, people · What happens: regret, be, rescue, bark, carry off, try · To what, where: monster, Celia, people, prince

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, people), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regretted	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 regretted	nsubj
7	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 monster	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 monster	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 monster	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 monster	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monster	det
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regretted	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 able	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 regretted	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rescue	mark
23	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 rescue	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 bark	punct
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 bark	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bark	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bark	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 bark	advmod
30	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 regretted	parataxis
31	feebly	feebly	ADV	_	30 bark	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 people	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bark	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 carrying	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 carrying	aux
37	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 people	acl:relcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 carrying	obj
39	off	off	ADP	_	37 carrying	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 try	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 try	cc
42	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 bark	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 follow	mark
44	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 try	xcomp
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 follow	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 chased	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 chased	cc
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 chased	nsubj
49	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 regretted	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 kicked	cc
51	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 chased	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 kicked	obj
53	away	away	ADV	_	51 kicked	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 regretted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	regret	past	the Prince		time		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	prince	the monster		long property	tree rules
3	is	would · perfect	prince		then	able property	tree rules
4	rescue	to-infinitive	prince not said here	Celia			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celia=Theme
5	bark	could	prince		now	at the people; feebly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at people=Stimulus
6	carry off	past · progressive	the people	Celia			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	try	infinitive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive		people			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	chase	past	people				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
10	kick away	past	people not said here	prince		away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=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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