The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 53
When the King’s men saw the Dog they began to laugh at it, and make as if they would tease it; but when the Prince saw this he advised them not to do it, or they might have the worst of it.
Who acts: men, Prince · What happens: see, begin, laugh, make, tease, advise · To what, where: Dog, seat, this, men, worst · 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 (men, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dog | det |
| 8 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Dog | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 laugh | mark |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laugh | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saw | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 tease | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 tease | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tease | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tease | aux |
| 22 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tease | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 advised | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 advised | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 saw | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 advised | advcl |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 saw | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 advised | nsubj |
| 32 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 advised | obj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 do | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 advised | ccomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 do | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 have | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 worst | det |
| 44 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 have | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 worst | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King's men | the Dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | men = man | the Dog not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | seat | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | the King's men not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | tease | would | men = man | seat | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | see | past | the Prince | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | advise speech: other | past | Prince | men = man | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | not do not said to happen | to-infinitive | seat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | have | might | men = man | the worst | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Patient |
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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