The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 10
The Prince was delighted at the prospect, and set out on his travels that very day.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, set out, travel · To what, where: prospect
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 prospect | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prospect | det |
| 7 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 travels | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 travels | nmod:poss |
| 14 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 day | mark |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 day | advmod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 travels | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | the prospect | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set out | past | the Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | the Prince not said here | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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