The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 63
The prince thanked the fox with all his heart for his true friendship, but the fox answered that if he had been of any use to him he would now for his own part ask a service of him.
Who acts: prince, fox · What happens: thank, answer, be, ask, service · To what, where: fox, prince, service · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 heart | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 friendship | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friendship | amod |
| 13 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 answered | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 ask | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 use | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 use | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 use | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 use | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 use | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 use | det |
| 26 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ask | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 use | nmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ask | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 ask | aux |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 ask | advmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 part | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 part | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 part | amod |
| 35 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ask | obl |
| 36 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 answered | ccomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 service | det |
| 38 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ask | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 service | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | the fox | with fox's heart for fox's true friendship | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | fox | prince | of any use | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | would | fox | a service of prince | now | for fox's own part | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient | ||
| 5 | service | prince | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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