The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 65
One of the Prince’s favorite companions was his foster-brother, whom he trusted entirely; but he was not at all a good man, and gave Prince Darling very bad advice, and encouraged him in all his evil ways.
Who acts: One, prince · What happens: be, trust, not be, give, encourage · To what, where: foster brother, bad advice, Prince Darling, prince, evil ways
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 (One, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 companions | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Prince | case |
| 6 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 companions | amod |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brother | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 foster | punct |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trusted | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 trusted | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trusted | nsubj |
| 16 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brother | acl:relcl |
| 17 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 16 trusted | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 man | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 man | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 man | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 man | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 man | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 man | det |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trusted | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gave | cc |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trusted | conj |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Darling | compound |
| 32 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obj |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 bad | advmod |
| 34 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 advice | amod |
| 35 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 encouraged | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 encouraged | cc |
| 38 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gave | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 encouraged | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 ways | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 ways | det:predet |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 ways | nmod:poss |
| 43 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ways | amod |
| 44 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 encouraged | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | One of the Prince's favorite companions | prince's foster brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | past | prince | prince's foster brother | entirely property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is | past | prince | at all good man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | prince not said here | bad advice | Prince Darling | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent darling=Recipient advice=Theme | |||
| 5 | encourage | past | prince not said here | prince | prince's evil ways | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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