The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 32
The prince hastened back to his room and summoned the dove, and when she heard this new command she said: ‘Now listen.
Who acts: prince, daughter · What happens: hasten back, summon, hear, say, listen · To what, where: prince, room, dove, new command · 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 (prince, daughter), 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 | 9 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prince | acl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 summoned | cc |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dove | det |
| 11 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 command | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 command | amod |
| 19 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 summoned | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 listen | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 listen | punct |
| 24 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 listen | advmod |
| 25 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten back | participle | the prince not said here | prince's room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | the prince | the dove | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | daughter | this new command | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer command=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | listen | infinitive | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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