The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 51
Not that he was naturally of a bad disposition; he was truly sorry when he had been naughty, and said:
Who acts: prince, bad disposition · What happens: not be, be, say · 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, bad disposition), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 disposition | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 disposition | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 disposition | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disposition | cop |
| 5 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 9 disposition | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 disposition | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 disposition | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disposition | amod |
| 9 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sorry | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sorry | cop |
| 13 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 14 sorry | advmod |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disposition | parataxis |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 naughty | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 naughty | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 naughty | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 naughty | cop |
| 19 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sorry | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | prince | of a bad disposition; naturally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince | sorry, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | prince | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a bad disposition | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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