The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 34
The fox was waiting for him outside the castle, and the prince confessed to him that he had very nearly given way to temptation this time as well.
Who acts: fox, prince · What happens: wait, confess, give · To what, where: castle, fox, prince
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 (fox, 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | obl |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 confessed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 confessed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confessed | nsubj |
| 14 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 confessed | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 given | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 nearly | advmod |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 given | advmod |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 confessed | advcl |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 temptation | case |
| 25 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 22 given | advmod |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 as | fixed |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the fox | the castle | for prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside castle=Location | |||
| 2 | confess | past | the prince | fox | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | prince | time | to temptation; nearly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient way=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 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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