The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 41
The prince had been a fortnight with the grand duke, and enjoyed himself mightily.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, enjoy · To what, where: fortnight, prince
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fortnight | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fortnight | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fortnight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fortnight | det |
| 6 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 duke | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 duke | det |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 duke | amod |
| 10 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fortnight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 enjoyed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 enjoyed | cc |
| 13 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fortnight | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 enjoyed | obj |
| 15 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 13 enjoyed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fortnight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | the prince | a fortnight | with the grand duke | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enjoy | past | the prince not said here | prince | mightily property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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