The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 26
The next morning when the prince awoke he saw the three loaves standing beside his bed.
Who acts: prince, three loaves · What happens: awake, see, stand · To what, where: three loaves, bed
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, three loaves), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loaves | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 loaves | nummod |
| 12 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 loaves | acl |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | prince | the three loaves | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loaf=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the three loaves not said here | prince's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside bed=Location |
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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