The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 48
The Prince then forced himself to ask, ‘What is your name?’
Who acts: Prince · What happens: force, ask, be · To what, where: Prince, name
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 | 4 forced | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 forced | advmod |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 forced | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 name | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 name | cop |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forced | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past | the Prince | Prince | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | your name | 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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