The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 98
The Prince assented to this, and began to prepare for the journey.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: assent, begin, prepare
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 | 3 assented | nsubj |
| 3 | assented | assent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 assented | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assented | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 prepare | mark |
| 10 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prepare | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | past | the Prince | to this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Prince not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary |
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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