The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 70
But the Prince lied manfully, and swore he had never looked up from his work for a moment.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: lie, swear, not look up, work
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 lied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lied | nsubj |
| 4 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | manfully | manfully | ADV | _ | 4 lied | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swore | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swore | cc |
| 8 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lied | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 looked | advmod |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 swore | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 moment | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the Prince | manfully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not look up | past · perfect | Prince | from Prince's work for a moment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | Prince | for a moment | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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