The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 33
The Prince, who now realised what his heedlessness had done, cursed too late his spirit of curiosity.
Who acts: Prince, heedlessness · What happens: realise, do, curse · To what, where: late spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, heedlessness), 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 | 6 realised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 realised | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 realised | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 realised | advmod |
| 6 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 done | obj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heedlessness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heedlessness | heedlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 realised | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cursed | punct |
| 13 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 realised | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 late | advmod |
| 15 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spirit | amod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cursed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 curiosity | case |
| 19 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spirit | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 realised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | the Prince | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | Prince's heedlessness | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | curse | participle | the Prince not said here | Prince's late spirit of curiosity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=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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