The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 28
About this time the grand duke had a visit from a neighbouring prince, a friend of his.
Who acts: grand duke · What happens: have · To what, where: visit
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (grand duke), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duke | det |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duke | amod |
| 6 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 visit | det |
| 9 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 prince | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 12 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prince | amod |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prince | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 his | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the grand duke | a visit | time | from a neighbouring prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=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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