The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 88
The Prince at once gave himself up for lost, but the girl told him to be of good courage and to follow her as quickly as he could.
Who acts: Prince, girl · What happens: give up, lose, tell, be, follow · To what, where: Prince, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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, girl), 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 | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 gave | obl |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 gave | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 lost | mark |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gave | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 courage | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 courage | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 courage | case |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 courage | amod |
| 20 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 follow | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 follow | mark |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 follow | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 quickly | advmod |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 23 follow | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 could | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 could | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 quickly | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the Prince | Prince | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | the Prince not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the girl | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | of good courage | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | follow | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | girl | quickly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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