The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 91
This joyous life pleased the prince so well that he stayed in the inn, took part in the playing and drinking, and forgot both his blind father and the bird Grip.
Who acts: joyous life · What happens: stay, take, forget · To what, where: inn, part, playing, blind father
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joyous life), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 life | det |
| 2 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prince | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 stayed | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 inn | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inn | det |
| 14 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stayed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stayed | parataxis |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 playing | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 playing | det |
| 20 | playing | playing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drinking | cc |
| 22 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 playing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgot | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forgot | cc |
| 25 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 father | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 father | amod |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forgot | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Grip | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Grip | det |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Grip | compound |
| 33 | Grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 father | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | this joyous life the pleased prince | the inn | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in inn=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | part | the playing and drinking | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in playing=Location | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | prince's blind father and the bird Grip | tree rules |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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