The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 29
The monarch looked at the loaves for a moment without speaking, then he said:
Who acts: monarch · What happens: look, speak, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (monarch), 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 monarch | det |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 loaves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 loaves | det |
| 6 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 speaking | mark |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the monarch | moment | at the loaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the monarch not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | monarch | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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