The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 4
But he did venture to say so, for his name was known far and wide.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: venture, say, know, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 venture | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 venture | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 venture | aux |
| 4 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 venture | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 known | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 venture | parataxis |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 known | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wide | cc |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 known | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | past · do-support | Prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | past · passive | Prince's name | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | name | Prince | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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