The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 26
The Prince received me at my landing with all possible joy, and made me a Nardal on the spot, which is the highest title of honor among them.
Who acts: Prince, spot · What happens: receive, make, be · To what, where: me, landing, Nardal, spot, highest title
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, spot), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 received | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 landing | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 landing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 joy | det |
| 10 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 joy | amod |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 landing | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Nardal | det |
| 17 | Nardal | Nardal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 title | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 title | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 title | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 title | det |
| 25 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 title | amod |
| 26 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spot | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 honor | case |
| 28 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 title | nmod |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 honor | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Prince | me | my landing with all possible joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at landing=Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | the Prince not said here | a Nardal | me | the spot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary nardal=Product | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the spot | the highest title | of honor among cables | tree rules |
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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