The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 145
He remembered that white was the favorite color of the Fairy Truth, and began to hope that he might at last win back her favor.
Who acts: prince, white, Truth · What happens: remember, be, begin, hope, favor · To what, where: favorite color, favor, last win · 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, white, Truth), 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 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 white | det |
| 4 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 color | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 color | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 color | det |
| 7 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 color | amod |
| 8 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Truth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Truth | det |
| 11 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Truth | compound |
| 12 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 color | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hope | mark |
| 17 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 might | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 might | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hope | ccomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 win | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 win | amod |
| 23 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hope | obl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 hope | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 favor | nmod:poss |
| 26 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hope | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | prince | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | that white | the favorite color | of the Fairy Truth | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | past | prince not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | hope | to-infinitive | prince not said here | Truth's favor | last win | tree rules | |||
| 5 | favor | Truth | nom favor «act 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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