The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 92
The Fairy had scarcely finished speaking when Prince Darling saw to his horror that her words were fulfilled.
Who acts: Prince Darling, horror, fairy · What happens: finish, speak, see, fulfil, word · To what, where: Fairy, words · 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 Darling, horror, fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 finished | advmod |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 finished | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Darling | compound |
| 9 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaking | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 horror | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horror | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 fulfilled | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 18 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 horror | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the Fairy | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | Prince Darling | to Darling's horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fulfil | past · passive | Darling's horror not said here | fairy's words | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | word | fairy | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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