The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 29
‘Well,’ thought the prince as he went away, ‘unless there is some trick behind, this does not sound very hard.
Who acts: prince, trick, this · What happens: think, go away, be, not sound · To what, where: prince · 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, trick, this), 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 went | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sound | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 sound | punct |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sound | advcl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 trick | det |
| 18 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 16 is | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 sound | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sound | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sound | advmod |
| 24 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 hard | advmod |
| 26 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 sound | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent prince=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | prince | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | some trick | there | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | not sound | present · do-support | this | hard property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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