The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 69
Now, as the Prince had not the smallest idea where this fountain was to be found, it might be thought that he was not much nearer Rosalie than before.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, find, think, be · To what, where: smallest idea, fountain, nearer Rosalie · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | advcl |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 idea | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 idea | det |
| 9 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 idea | amod |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 found | advmod |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fountain | det |
| 13 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 idea | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thought | aux:pass |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 Rosalie | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Rosalie | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Rosalie | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 nearer | advmod |
| 28 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 Rosalie | amod |
| 29 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 before | case |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 thought | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Prince | the smallest idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the Prince not said here | this fountain | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | might · passive | fountain | now | before property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Prince | nearer Rosalie | tree rules |
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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