The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 56
This done, he thought of nothing but how best to deliver Rosalie, and he resolved to take advantage of a visit which the Prince of the Air paid every year to his mother and brothers in order to strike the blow.
Who acts: heart, Prince · What happens: do, think, deliver, resolve, take, pay · To what, where: This, Rosalie, advantage, order, visit, blow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 thought | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 best | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 best | advmod |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 nothing | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 deliver | mark |
| 12 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 best | csubj |
| 13 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 deliver | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resolved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 resolved | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 resolved | nsubj |
| 17 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 resolved | xcomp |
| 20 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 visit | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 visit | det |
| 23 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 paid | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 paid | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Air | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Air | det |
| 29 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Prince | nmod |
| 30 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 visit | acl:relcl |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 year | det |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 paid | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 mother | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 paid | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 brothers | cc |
| 37 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 mother | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 order | case |
| 39 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 strike | mark |
| 41 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 take | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 blow | det |
| 43 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 strike | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | heart | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deliver | to-infinitive | Rosalie | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Patient | |||||
| 4 | resolve | past | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | heart not said here | advantage | order | of a visit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme of visit=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | pay | past | the Prince of the Air | a visit | year | to heart's mother and brothers | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Asset | ||
| 7 | strike | to-infinitive | heart not said here | the blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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 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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