The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 25
Prince Darling was very sorry, for he loved his father with all his heart, and he would willingly have given all his kingdoms and all his treasures of gold and silver if they could have kept the good King with him.
Who acts: Prince Darling, Darling · What happens: be, love, give, keep, treasure · To what, where: father, Darling, kingdoms, gold
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 Darling, Darling), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Darling | compound |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loved | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 loved | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 heart | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 given | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 20 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 22 given | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 given | aux |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sorry | parataxis |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 kingdoms | det:predet |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kingdoms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 given | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 treasures | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 treasures | det:predet |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 29 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kingdoms | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 treasures | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 silver | cc |
| 33 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gold | conj |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 kept | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 kept | aux |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 kept | aux |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 given | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 King | det |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 King | amod |
| 41 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 kept | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 kept | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince Darling | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | Darling | Darling's father | with Darling's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | give | would · perfect · passive | Darling | willingly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep a condition, not said to happen | could · perfect · passive | kingdoms = kingdom | with king | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | treasure | Darling | gold and silver | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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