The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 2
The prince answered that his errand was too important to be confided to everyone that he met.
Who acts: prince, errand · What happens: answer, be, confide, meet · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here
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, errand), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 important | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 errand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 important | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 important | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 important | advmod |
| 9 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 confided | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 confided | aux:pass |
| 12 | confided | confide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 important | csubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 everyone | case |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 confided | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 met | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | prince's errand | important property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confide speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to everyone=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | meet | past | errand | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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