The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 45
The Prince thanked him for this and for all his other kindnesses, and the Giant returned home, while Ring went up some distance from the sea; but he did not know what land he had come to, and was afraid to speak to the Dog.
Who acts: Prince, Giant, Ring · What happens: thank, return, go up, not know, come, be · To what, where: Giant, distance, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Giant, Ring), 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 | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thanked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kindnesses | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 kindnesses | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 kindnesses | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kindnesses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kindnesses | amod |
| 12 | kindnesses | kindness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanked | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 returned | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Giant | det |
| 16 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 returned | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 21 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 returned | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 went | compound:prt |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 distance | det |
| 25 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 distance | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 know | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 know | advmod |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 know | ccomp |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 what | nsubj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 land | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 come | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 afraid | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 afraid | cc |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 afraid | cop |
| 44 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanked | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 speak | mark |
| 46 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 afraid | xcomp |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 Dog | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Dog | det |
| 49 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 speak | obl |
| 50 | . | . | 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 | Giant | for this | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for this=Attribute | |||
| 2 | return | past | the Giant | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | Ring | some distance from the sea | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | Giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | Giant | land not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the Prince not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | to the Dog | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to dog=Co-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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