The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 96
Prince Darling recognized the voice of the Fairy Truth and turned in a fury to catch her and eat her up if he possibly could; but he saw no one, and the same voice went on:
Who acts: Prince, same voice · What happens: recognize, turn, catch, eat up, see, go on · To what, where: voice, fury, one
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, same voice), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Truth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Truth | det |
| 8 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Truth | compound |
| 9 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognized | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fury | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fury | det |
| 14 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 turned | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eat | cc |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 catch | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 eat | compound:prt |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 could | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 24 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 25 could | advmod |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 eat | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognized | conj |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 voice | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 voice | amod |
| 36 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognized | parataxis |
| 38 | on | on | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | Prince | the voice of the Fairy Truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Prince not said here | a fury | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in fury=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | voice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat up | infinitive | Prince not said here | voice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | see | past | prince | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | go on | past | the same voice | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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