The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 93
The youths seated themselves at the table; and now the Prince said again, while he took up the cup of wine:
Who acts: youths, Prince · What happens: seat, say, take up · To what, where: orders, table, cup · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youths, 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 youths | det |
| 2 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | parataxis |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 took | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wine | case |
| 23 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cup | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | the youths | orders = order | the table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | now; again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | prince | the cup of wine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
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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