The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 96
Ring now left the King, and was very silent, for he saw he was in a great difficulty: but, on the other hand, he thought it was excellent to have such a chance of winning the King’s daughter.
Who acts: Ring, it, chance · What happens: leave, be, see, think, have, win · To what, where: King, great difficulty, chance, daughter · 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 (Ring, it, chance), 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 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 silent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silent | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 silent | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 silent | advmod |
| 10 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 left | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 difficulty | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 difficulty | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 difficulty | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 difficulty | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 difficulty | amod |
| 20 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 thought | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 but | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hand | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 excellent | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 excellent | cop |
| 33 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thought | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 have | mark |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 excellent | xcomp |
| 36 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 chance | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 chance | det |
| 38 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 40 winning | mark |
| 40 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 chance | acl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 King | det |
| 42 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 King | case |
| 44 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 winning | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Ring | the King | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Ring not said here | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Ring | a great difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Ring | on the other hand | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on hand=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | past | it | excellent property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | such chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | |||||
| 8 | win | gerund | such chance not said here | the King's daughter | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
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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