The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 92
The Prince obeyed the Frog’s orders one by one, and all went well for this second time also.
Who acts: Prince, Frog · What happens: obey, go, order · To what, where: orders
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 (Prince, Frog), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Frog | det |
| 5 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 orders | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Frog | case |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 obeyed | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 went | advmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the Prince | the Frog's orders | one by one obl | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Prince not said here | time | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | order | the Frog | nom order «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 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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