The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 31
This prince who is staying with me has better dinners than any one except myself, and is a great judge of cooking.
Who acts: prince · What happens: stay, have, be · To what, where: better dinners, great judge
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 (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 staying | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 staying | aux |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 prince | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 staying | obl |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 dinners | amod |
| 10 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dinners | nmod |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 myself | case |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 judge | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 judge | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 judge | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 judge | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 judge | amod |
| 21 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cooking | case |
| 23 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 judge | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present · progressive | this prince | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | this prince | better dinners | than any one except myself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a great judge | of cooking | 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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