The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 65
He slept soundly, and it was still almost dark when he got up and proceeded to carry out the instructions given him by the girl.
Who acts: prince, bed, instructions · What happens: sleep, be, get up, proceed, carry out, give · To what, where: instructions, prince
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, bed, instructions), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 2 slept | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dark | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dark | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dark | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dark | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 dark | advmod |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 dark | advmod |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 slept | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dark | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 got | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 proceeded | cc |
| 16 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 proceeded | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 carry | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 instructions | det |
| 21 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | obj |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 instructions | acl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl:agent |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | prince | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | bed | still | almost, dark property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get up | past | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | proceed | past | prince not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | carry out | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the instructions | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | give | participle | the instructions not said here | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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