The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 1
The invisible Prince recognised these dead men as Kings of two large islands near his own home, but the names of the Princesses were unknown to him.
Who acts: invisible Prince, names · What happens: recognise, be, name · To what, where: dead men, Prince, Princesses
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invisible Prince, names), 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 | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 recognised | nsubj |
| 4 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 men | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recognised | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Kings | case |
| 9 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recognised | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 islands | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 islands | nummod |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 islands | amod |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Kings | nmod |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 home | amod |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 islands | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 unknown | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 unknown | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 names | det |
| 21 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 unknown | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Princesses | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princesses | det |
| 24 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 names | nmod |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 unknown | cop |
| 26 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 recognised | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 unknown | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the invisible Prince | this dead men | as Kings of two large islands near Prince's own home | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus as king=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | the names of the Princesses | Prince | unknown property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | the Princesses | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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