The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 104
The Prince began to get giddy, but up went Snati on to the second shelf.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: begin, get, go · To what, where: second shelf
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). 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 | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | giddy | giddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 11 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | flat |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shelf | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shelf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shelf | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 shelf | amod |
| 16 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | giddy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the second shelf | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shelf=Location |
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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