The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 27
He jumped up and dressed, and he was scarcely ready when a page arrived with the message that he was to go at once into the king’s chamber.
Who acts: prince, page · What happens: jump up, dress, be, arrive · To what, where: chamber
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, page), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dressed | cc |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jumped | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ready | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ready | cop |
| 10 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ready | amod |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 arrived | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 page | det |
| 14 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ready | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 message | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 message | det |
| 18 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 arrived | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 chamber | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dress | participle | prince not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | arrive | participle | a page | with the message | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | prince | the king's chamber | go property | 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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