The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 83
The Prince was so grieved at this want of confidence that he left her without another word.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: grieve, leave, want · To what, where: Prince, want, Graciosa, confidence
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grieved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 grieved | advmod |
| 5 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 want | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 want | det |
| 8 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grieved | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 confidence | case |
| 10 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | nmod |
| 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 | 5 grieved | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | obj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 word | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | the Prince | this want of confidence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Prince | Graciosa | without another word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | want | confidence | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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