The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 85
Meanwhile the Invisible Prince was turning over in his mind how he could best deliver Rosalie.
Who acts: Invisible Prince, Prince · What happens: turn over, deliver, mind · To what, where: mind, Rosalie
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, 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 turning | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | compound |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turning | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turning | aux |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 turning | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turning | obl |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 deliver | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deliver | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 deliver | aux |
| 14 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 deliver | advmod |
| 15 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 turning | advcl |
| 16 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 deliver | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over | past · progressive | the Invisible Prince | Prince's mind | meanwhile, over property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | deliver | could | Prince | Rosalie | well property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Patient | |||
| 3 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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