The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 138
He determined not to quit the place till he knew what had become of Celia, and blamed himself for what had befallen her.
Who acts: prince · What happens: determine, not quit, know, become, blame, befall · To what, where: place, prince, Celia · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 quit | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 quit | mark |
| 5 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quit | obj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quit | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Celia | case |
| 15 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 become | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blamed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blamed | cc |
| 18 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 determined | parataxis |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 blamed | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 befallen | mark |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 befallen | aux |
| 23 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 blamed | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 befallen | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | prince | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not quit | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the place | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Source | ||||
| 3 | know | past | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | of Celia | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | blame | past | prince | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 6 | befall | past · perfect · passive | Celia | 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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