The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 70
The master was dumb with surprise as he came in after breakfast and found his man’s day’s work quite done.
Who acts: master, prince, day · What happens: be, come in, find, do, work · To what, where: work
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 (master, prince, day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dumb | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | cop |
| 4 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 surprise | case |
| 6 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dumb | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dumb | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 breakfast | case |
| 12 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 man | nmod:poss |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 man | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 work | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 day | case |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 done | advmod |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dumb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the master | with surprise; dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | prince | after breakfast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | prince not said here | prince's man's day's work | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | prince not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | work | prince's man's day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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