The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 29
One day the Giant took him round and showed him all his rooms except the parlour; this made the Prince curious to have a look into it, thinking there must be some very rare treasure there.
Who acts: Giant, this · What happens: take, show, make, have, think, be · To what, where: Prince, rooms, look, rare treasure
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 (Giant, this), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Giant | det |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | iobj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rooms | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 showed | obj |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 parlour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parlour | det |
| 16 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rooms | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 curious | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 look | det |
| 26 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thinking | punct |
| 30 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | advcl |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 thinking | advmod |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 treasure | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 treasure | cop |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 treasure | det |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 rare | advmod |
| 36 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 treasure | amod |
| 37 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thinking | obl |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 treasure | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Giant | Prince | day | round property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||
| 2 | show | past | the Giant not said here | Prince's rooms | Prince | except the parlour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Topic | ||
| 3 | make | past | this | the Prince | curious property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prince=Product | |||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | this not said here | a look | look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | this not said here | there | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | must | some rare treasure | there | tree rules |
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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