The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 162
Celia and Prince Darling reigned for many years, but he was so determined to govern worthily and to do his duty that his ring, which he took to wearing again, never once pricked him severely.
Who acts: Celia, Darling, ring · What happens: reign, be, govern, do, take, wear · To what, where: duty, Darling
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 (Celia, Darling, ring), 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 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reigned | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Darling | cc |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Celia | conj |
| 5 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reigned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 determined | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 determined | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 determined | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 determined | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 determined | advmod |
| 14 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reigned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 govern | mark |
| 16 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 determined | xcomp |
| 17 | worthily | worthily | ADV | _ | 16 govern | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 govern | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 duty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 ring | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ring | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 took | nsubj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ring | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 31 wearing | mark |
| 31 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 took | advcl |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 wearing | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pricked | punct |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 pricked | advmod |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 pricked | advmod |
| 36 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pricked | obj |
| 38 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 36 pricked | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | Celia and Prince Darling | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Darling | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | govern | to-infinitive | Darling not said here | worthily property | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Darling not said here | Darling's duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Darling's ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wear | gerund | Darling's ring not said here | again | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | not prick | past | Darling's ring not said here | Darling | once, severely property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 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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