The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 98
The prince loitered about all day, and in the evening went back to the old man’s room.
Who acts: prince · What happens: loiter, go back · To what, where: 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), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 3 | loitered | loiter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prince | acl |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loitered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loiter | participle | the prince not said here | day | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | the prince | evening | to the old man's room result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/98/