The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 39
At this sight the Prince became more puzzled than ever, for he did not know how he was to warn Rosalie of his return.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: become, puzzle, not know, be, return · To what, where: sight
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 puzzled | advmod |
| 8 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 puzzled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 became | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 warn | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 warn | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 warn | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 warn | mark |
| 21 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | advcl |
| 22 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 warn | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 return | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 return | nmod:poss |
| 25 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Rosalie | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Prince | this sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | puzzle | participle | the Prince not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Prince | warn property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | Prince | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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