The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 60
The Prince was about to enter the wood by a little path he had discovered, when he heard a voice shouting to him: ‘Hold, youth!
Who acts: Prince, voice · What happens: be, enter, discover, hear, shout · To what, where: wood, little path, voice, Prince
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 (Prince, voice), 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 | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 enter | mark |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enter | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 path | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 path | amod |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enter | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 discovered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 discovered | aux |
| 15 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 path | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 heard | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 22 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 voice | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shouting | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hold | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hold | punct |
| 27 | Hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 youth | punct |
| 29 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Hold | conj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | the wood | by a little path | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination | |||
| 3 | discover | past · perfect | Prince | a little path not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | Prince | a voice | Hold and youth obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | shout speech: express | gerund | a voice not said here | Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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