The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 24
The prince willingly agreed to this, and admitted to the judge that he had meant to steal the princess, and that he was a master-thief.
Who acts: prince · What happens: agree, admit, mean, steal, be · To what, where: judge, princess, master thief
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), 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 | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 agreed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 admitted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 admitted | cc |
| 9 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 judge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 judge | det |
| 12 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 admitted | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 meant | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 meant | aux |
| 16 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 admitted | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 steal | mark |
| 18 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 meant | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steal | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thief | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thief | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 thief | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thief | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thief | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 thief | det |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thief | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 master | punct |
| 29 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meant | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the prince | to this; willingly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | participle | the judge | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to judge=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | mean | past · perfect | prince | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | prince | a master thief | 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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