The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 13
As he now sat in his prison, and bitterly lamented that his own disobedience had brought himself into trouble, and deprived his father of the chance of recovering his sight, the fox suddenly stood in front of him.
Who acts: prince, chance, fox · What happens: sit, lament, bring, deprive, recover, stand · To what, where: prison, own disobedience, trouble, father, sight, front
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, chance, fox), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lamented | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prison | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamented | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lamented | cc |
| 10 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 11 lamented | advmod |
| 11 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 disobedience | amod |
| 15 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lamented | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 deprived | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 deprived | cc |
| 23 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lamented | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deprived | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 chance | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chance | det |
| 28 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 father | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 recovering | mark |
| 30 | recovering | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 chance | acl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sight | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recovering | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stood | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fox | det |
| 35 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | nsubj |
| 36 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 37 stood | advmod |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 father | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 front | case |
| 39 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 front | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | prince | prince's prison | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prison=Location | |||
| 2 | lament | past | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | prince's own disobedience | trouble | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deprive | past | prince's father of the chance | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Source | |||||
| 5 | recover | gerund | the chance not said here | prince's sight | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | the fox | front of prince | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | |||
| 7 | disobey | prince | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | sight | prince | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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 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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