The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 2
‘For to-morrow,’ answered the prince, ‘it is really nothing at all!
Who acts: morrow · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: prince, nothing, all
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 (morrow), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 morrow | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 morrow | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nothing | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 nothing | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 nothing | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 nothing | cop |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 nothing | advmod |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 answered | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | for morrow | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | morrow | nothing | all | tree rules |
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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