The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 32

One day, however, he went out hunting, but could get no sport, which put him in a very bad temper; it seemed to him as he rode along that his ring was pressing into his finger, but as it did not prick him he did not heed it.

Who acts: Darling, sport, it, ring · What happens: go out, get, put, seem, ride along, press · To what, where: hunting, sport, Darling, bad temper, finger, ring

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 (Darling, sport, it, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 went	compound:prt
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 sport	det
15	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sport	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 temper	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 temper	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 bad	advmod
23	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 temper	amod
24	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 rode	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rode	nsubj
32	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seemed	advcl
33	along	along	ADP	_	32 rode	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 pressing	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ring	nmod:poss
36	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pressing	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 pressing	aux
38	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 rode	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 finger	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 finger	nmod:poss
41	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pressing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 heed	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 heed	cc
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 prick	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 prick	nsubj
46	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 prick	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 prick	advmod
48	prick	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 heed	advcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 prick	obj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 heed	nsubj
51	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 heed	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 heed	advmod
53	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	conj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 heed	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Darling	hunting			day	however property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	could	Darling not said here	no sport					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=Stimulus
3	put	past	no sport	Darling		a bad temper			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in temper=Destination
4	seem	past	it		Darling				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	ride along	past	Darling						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	press	past · progressive	Darling's ring			Darling's finger			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into finger=Trajectory
7	not prick	past · do-support	ring	Darling					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
8	not heed	past · do-support	Darling	ring					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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