The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 50
The Prince sought for her in vain, and at last in despair sat down on a big stone and contemplated his sad fate.
Who acts: Prince, last · What happens: seek, sit down, contemplate, fate · To what, where: vain, big stone, sad fate
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, last), 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 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sought | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 despair | case |
| 13 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 last | obl |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stone | amod |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 contemplated | cc |
| 21 | contemplated | contemplate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fate | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fate | amod |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contemplated | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | the Prince | vain | for mare | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme in vain=Location | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | last | a big stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 3 | contemplate | past | last not said here | Prince's sad fate | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fate | Prince | nom fate «event 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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