The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 52
Without in the least expecting an answer, the Prince asked it:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: expect, ask · To what, where: answer
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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 expecting | mark |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 expecting | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 least | det |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 expecting | advmod |
| 5 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expecting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | gerund | the Prince not said here | a answer | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | answer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/52/