The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 32
In short, his grief was so violent and insupportable that he left the Court, and renounced all right of succession to the crown, to turn hermit.
Who acts: grief, Prince · What happens: be, leave, renounce, turn · To what, where: short, Court, hermit
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 short | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 violent | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 violent | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 violent | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 violent | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 violent | advmod |
| 8 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 insupportable | cc |
| 10 | insupportable | insupportable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 violent | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 left | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 violent | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Court | det |
| 15 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 renounced | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 renounced | cc |
| 18 | renounced | renounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 violent | conj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 right | advmod |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 renounced | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 succession | case |
| 22 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 right | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 crown | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 crown | det |
| 25 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 right | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turn | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 turn | mark |
| 28 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 renounced | conj |
| 29 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 violent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince's grief | short | violent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Prince's grief not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | Prince | the Court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 4 | renounce | past | Prince's grief not said here | right property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn | to-infinitive | Prince's grief not said here | hermit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hermit=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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