The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 24
Prince Peerless hastened after her at the top of his speed, but could not get any nearer; then he called to her:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: hasten, not get, call · To what, where: top, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | Peerless | Peerless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 speed | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 speed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 nearer | det |
| 18 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 get | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 called | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | Prince | the top of Prince's speed | after woman | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not get | could | Prince not said here | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | call | past | Prince | woman | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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