The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 122
The prince did so, but got no further than the first cross-roads; there lay the lindorm again, who stopped him in the same way as before.
Who acts: prince · What happens: do, get, lie, stop · To what, where: lindorm, prince, same way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 further | advmod |
| 9 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 got | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 cross-roads | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cross-roads | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 cross-roads | amod |
| 13 | cross-roads | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 further | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 lay | expl |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lindorm | det |
| 18 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stopped | nsubj |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stopped | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 way | amod |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stopped | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 before | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 stopped | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the prince not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the lindorm | there | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lindorm=Theme | |||
| 4 | stop | past | prince | the same way | before property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality |
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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