The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 125
The Prince longed to see the owner of the voice, but he sought in vain for a door in the tower.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: long, see, seek · To what, where: owner, vain
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. 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 | 3 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 longed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 owner | det |
| 7 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owner | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sought | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sought | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sought | nsubj |
| 14 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 longed | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sought | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sought | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tower | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tower | det |
| 22 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | the Prince | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | the owner of the voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owner=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | Prince | vain | for a door; in the tower | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for door=Theme |
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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