The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 82
The Prince heard her words without anxiety, so entirely did he rely on the help of his black friend.
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: hear, rely, word, help · To what, where: words, black friend
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, Fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 anxiety | case |
| 7 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rely | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 rely | advmod |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 rely | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rely | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rely | nsubj |
| 13 | rely | rely | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 help | det |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rely | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 friend | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friend | amod |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 help | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Prince | Fairy's words | without anxiety | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | rely | past · do-support | Prince | on the help of Prince's black friend; entirely property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on help=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | Fairy | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | help | Prince's black friend | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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