The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 130
At last he jumped angrily out of bed to go in search of the culprits, but only found an empty house, and beds that had never been slept in.
Who acts: prince · What happens: jump, go, find, not sleep in, search · To what, where: last, search, empty house, beds, culprits
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jumped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 4 jumped | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jumped | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 search | case |
| 12 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 culprits | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 culprits | det |
| 15 | culprits | culprit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 search | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 21 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 house | amod |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beds | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beds | cc |
| 25 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 slept | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 slept | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 slept | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 slept | aux:pass |
| 30 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 beds | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 slept | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | prince | last | out bed; angrily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at last=Trajectory out bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | prince not said here | search of the culprits | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | prince not said here | a empty house | beds obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | |||
| 4 | not sleep in | past · perfect · passive | beds | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | search | the culprits | nom search «act transitive»: of=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 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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