The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 66
The prince was astonished, and said that he could not bring himself to cut the had off his truest friend, and to this he stuck in spite of all the fox’s declarations that it was the greatest service he could do him.
Who acts: prince, friend, fox · What happens: be, say, not bring, cut, have off, stick · To what, where: prince, truest friend, spite, greatest service, fox, declarations · 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, friend, 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 | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bring | advmod |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cut | mark |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 had | det |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cut | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 had | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | truest | true | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 friend | amod |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stuck | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stuck | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 stuck | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stuck | nsubj |
| 27 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 spite | case |
| 29 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stuck | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 declarations | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 fox | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fox | det |
| 33 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 declarations | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 fox | case |
| 35 | declarations | declaration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spite | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 service | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 service | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 service | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 service | det |
| 40 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 service | amod |
| 41 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stuck | obl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 do | aux |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 service | acl:relcl |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not bring | could | prince | prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | have off | participle | prince's truest friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||||
| 6 | stick | past | prince | spite of all fox's declarations | to this | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in spite=Destination | |||
| 7 | is a | past | friend | the greatest service | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | do | could | prince | fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | spite | all fox's declarations | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | declare | all fox | nom declaration «communication 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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