The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 53

His ring pricked him very often, and sometimes he left off what he was doing at once; but at other times he would not attend to it.

Who acts: ring, prince · What happens: prick, leave off, do, not attend · To what, where: prince, 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 (ring, prince), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ring	nmod:poss
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pricked	nsubj
3	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pricked	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	3 pricked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 left	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pricked	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 left	compound:prt
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 doing	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 doing	aux
16	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 left	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 doing	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 attend	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 attend	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 times	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 attend	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 attend	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 attend	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 attend	advmod
27	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pricked	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 attend	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pricked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	prick	past	prince's ring	prince			often property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
2	leave off	past	prince				sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past · progressive	prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	not attend	would	prince		ring	time		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to 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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