The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 41
The Prince was distracted, for he fancied he heard his dear shepherdess weeping and begging him to save her.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: distract, fancy, hear, beg, save, weep · To what, where: Prince, dear shepherdess weeping, Fairy
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 distracted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distracted | aux:pass |
| 4 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fancied | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 fancied | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fancied | nsubj |
| 8 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distracted | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fancied | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 weeping | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weeping | amod |
| 13 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 weeping | compound |
| 14 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 16 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 heard | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begging | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 save | mark |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begging | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 save | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | past · passive | the Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fancy | past | Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | Prince | Prince's dear shepherdess weeping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Fairy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | weep | Prince | nom weeping «act intransitive»: 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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