The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 12
However, such a prince might be expected to have neat fingers.’
Who acts: prince · What happens: expect, have · To what, where: prince, neat fingers
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 expected | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 prince | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 expected | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 expected | aux:pass |
| 8 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 expected | xcomp |
| 11 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fingers | amod |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 expected | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | might · passive | such prince | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | such prince not said here | neat fingers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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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