The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 46
Morning broke, and the Prince, still full of the wonderful apparition, left his perch and returned to the palace like one in a dream, without even knowing if the fruit had been taken or not; for his whole mind was absorbed by thoughts of Militza and how he was to find her.
Who acts: thoughts, Militza, Prince · What happens: break, leave, return, know, take, absorb · To what, where: Prince, perch, fruit, Militza
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Militza, 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 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Prince | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Prince | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 full | advmod |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 broke | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 apparition | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 apparition | det |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apparition | amod |
| 13 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 perch | nmod:poss |
| 17 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 returned | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 dream | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dream | det |
| 27 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knowing | punct |
| 29 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 31 knowing | mark |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 knowing | advmod |
| 31 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 returned | advcl |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 taken | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fruit | det |
| 34 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 taken | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 taken | aux:pass |
| 37 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 knowing | ccomp |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 not | cc |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 taken | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 absorbed | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 mind | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mind | nmod:poss |
| 43 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 mind | amod |
| 44 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 absorbed | obl |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 46 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 thoughts | case |
| 48 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 absorbed | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Militza | case |
| 50 | Militza | Militza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 thoughts | nmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 find | cc |
| 52 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 56 find | advmod |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 find | nsubj |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 find | cop |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 find | mark |
| 56 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 absorbed | conj |
| 57 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 find | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the Prince | morning | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Prince's perch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | past | to the palace result; like one in a dream | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | |||||
| 4 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | take a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the fruit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | absorb | past · passive | thoughts of Militza | for Prince's whole mind | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Militza | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | think | Militza | nom thought «cognition 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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