The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 74
They turned out to be the Prince Gnome and his friend, and the sudden desire to get some news of his sister, Princess Argentine, caused the Invisible Prince to follow them and to listen to their conversation.
Who acts: people, sudden desire, Invisible Prince · What happens: turn out, be, get, cause, follow, listen · To what, where: Prince Gnome, news, Invisible Prince, people
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 (people, sudden desire, Invisible 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 Gnome | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Gnome | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gnome | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gnome | compound |
| 8 | Gnome | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 friend | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Gnome | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 caused | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 caused | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 desire | det |
| 15 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 desire | amod |
| 16 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 caused | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 desire | acl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sister | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sister | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 news | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Argentine | punct |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Argentine | compound |
| 26 | Argentine | Argentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sister | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 desire | punct |
| 28 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 30 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Prince | compound |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 caused | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 follow | mark |
| 33 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 caused | xcomp |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 follow | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 listen | cc |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 listen | mark |
| 37 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 follow | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 conversation | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 40 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 listen | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the Prince Gnome and Prince's friend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the sudden desire not said here | some news of Prince's sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | the sudden desire | the Invisible Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow | to-infinitive | the Invisible Prince not said here | people | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | listen | to-infinitive | the Invisible Prince not said here | to people's conversation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme | ||||
| 7 | converse | people | nom conversation «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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