The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 70
The prince wept bitterly when he heard this news, for he had loved his father well, and for three days he ate and drank nothing.
Who acts: prince, father · What happens: weep, hear, love, eat, drink · To what, where: news, father, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, father), 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 | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 loved | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 loved | aux |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 loved | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ate | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | nummod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ate | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ate | nsubj |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drank | cc |
| 26 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ate | conj |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 drank | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the prince | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | prince | this news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | past · perfect | prince | prince's father | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | eat | past | father | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | drink | past | father not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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