The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 125
But when she went up to the Prince’s room he was again asleep, and, let her call him, or shake him, or weep as she would, he still slept on, and she could not put any life in him.
Who acts: princess, prince · What happens: go up, be, let, call, shake, weep · To what, where: princess, prince, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asleep | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Prince | case |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asleep | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asleep | cop |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 asleep | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shake | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 shake | cc |
| 24 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shake | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 weep | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 weep | cc |
| 28 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 shake | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 would | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 would | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 weep | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 would | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 slept | nsubj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 slept | advmod |
| 35 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 would | acl:relcl |
| 36 | on | on | ADV | _ | 35 slept | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 put | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 put | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 put | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 put | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 put | advmod |
| 42 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | conj |
| 43 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 life | det |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 put | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 put | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | princess | to the Prince's room | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince | again | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | infinitive | princess not said here | prince | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | shake | infinitive | prince | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 6 | weep | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | sleep on | past | prince | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | not put | could | princess | any life | in prince | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in he=Destination |
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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