The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 18
And the Prince, seeing that it was of no use to remonstrate, bowed and retired.
Who acts: Prince, reason · What happens: see, be, remonstrate, bow, retire · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, reason), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seeing | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 use | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 use | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 use | det |
| 11 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 remonstrate | mark |
| 13 | remonstrate | remonstrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 use | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowed | punct |
| 15 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 use | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 retired | cc |
| 17 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bowed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | reason | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remonstrate | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bow | participle | no use not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | retire | participle | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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