The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 241
The little Prince was very much frightened at the swallow, for in comparison with one so tiny as himself he seemed a giant.
Who acts: man · What happens: frighten, seem · To what, where: little Prince, swallow, giant
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 swallow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swallow | det |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comparison | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 comparison | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 comparison | case |
| 14 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | obl |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 tiny | mark |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 tiny | nsubj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 tiny | advmod |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comparison | acl:relcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 tiny | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tiny | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 giant | det |
| 24 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seemed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the little Prince | the swallow | for comparison | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | seem | past | man | a giant | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme giant=Attribute |
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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