The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 29
The Prince thanked him for his information, and continued his journey for a whole year along the same road, and at the end of it came to the little hut, where he found a very old man.
Who acts: Prince, father · What happens: thank, continue, come, find, inform, journey · To what, where: father, journey, end, old man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, father), 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 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 information | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 information | nmod:poss |
| 7 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 continued | cc |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | obl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 road | amod |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 end | nmod |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 hut | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hut | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hut | amod |
| 32 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 found | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 came | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 old | advmod |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 found | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Prince | father | for father's information | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for information=Attribute | |||
| 2 | continue | past | father's journey | year | along the same road | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | at the end of road | to the little hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | find | past | father | a old man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 5 | inform | father | nom information «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | journey | father | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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