The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 60
The voice ceased, and though the Prince in his bewilderment asked various questions, he received no answer.
Who acts: voice, Prince · What happens: cease, ask, receive, bewilder · To what, where: various questions, answer
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 (voice, 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 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 received | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 received | cc |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 asked | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bewilderment | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bewilderment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bewilderment | bewilderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | nmod |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 received | advcl |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 questions | amod |
| 14 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 received | nsubj |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 answer | det |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the voice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince in prince's bewilderment | various questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | voice | no answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bewilder | prince | nom bewilderment «cognition transitive»: poss=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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