The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 16
By the time he was fifteen Saphir had learnt everything that a prince should know, and he was, besides, charming and agreeable.
Who acts: care, Saphir, prince · What happens: be, learn, know, charm · To what, where: fifteen, everything
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, Saphir, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learnt | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fifteen | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fifteen | cop |
| 6 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | Saphir | Saphir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 learnt | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 learnt | aux |
| 9 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 learnt | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 know | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 everything | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 charming | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 charming | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 charming | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 charming | aux |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 charming | punct |
| 21 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 23 charming | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 charming | punct |
| 23 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 learnt | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 agreeable | cc |
| 25 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 charming | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | care | fifteen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | past · perfect | Saphir | everything | time | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | |||
| 3 | know | should | a prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | charm | past · progressive | care | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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