The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 62
He sought everywhere, but he could not hear of any princess that took his fancy.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: seek, not hear, take, fancy · To what, where: fancy
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 sought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hear | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hear | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hear | advmod |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sought | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princess | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | king | everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not hear | could | king | of any princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | any princess | king's fancy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fancy | king | nom fancy «cognition 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/38/62/