The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 161
He gave up the throne joyfully to the Prince, and remained always the most faithful of his subjects.
Who acts: Suliman · What happens: give up, remain · To what, where: throne, 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 (Suliman), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 gave | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 2 gave | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 faithful | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 faithful | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 faithful | advmod |
| 16 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remained | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 subjects | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 19 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 faithful | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Suliman | the throne | the Prince | joyfully property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent throne=Theme to prince=Recipient | ||
| 2 | remain | past | Suliman not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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