The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 73
‘Oh, I have only myself to take counsel with,’ said the prince, and the old man went away, shaking his head.
Who acts: I, myself, old man · What happens: have, take, say, go away, shake · To what, where: myself, counsel, prince, head · 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 (I, myself, old man), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 myself | advmod |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 have | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 10 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shaking | punct |
| 25 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 went | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shaking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | myself not said here | counsel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go away | past | the old man | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shake | gerund | the old man not said here | prince's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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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