The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 49
The following evening the Prince dressed himself for the tournament.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, dress · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). 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 | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 dressed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tournament | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tournament | det |
| 10 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | dress | past | the Prince | prince | evening | for the tournament | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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