The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 94
At length he heard him calling, ‘You lazy fellow, where are you?
Who acts: instant, prince, You · What happens: hear, call, fellow, be · To what, where: prince, length · 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 (instant, prince, You), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 fellow | nsubj |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 where | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fellow | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 where | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 where | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | instant | prince | length | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | prince not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fellow | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | you | where property | 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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