The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 110
And the prince thought to himself, ‘Better kill the calf than be killed ourselves.
Who acts: prince, Better · What happens: think, kill · To what, where: prince, calf, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Better), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
| 9 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 calf | det |
| 12 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 killed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 killed | aux:pass |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 kill | advcl |
| 16 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 killed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the prince | prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | Better | the calf | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive · passive | Better not said here | ourselves | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: ourselves=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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