The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 52
But the prince was foolish enough to choose the fattest: and when they had started and the princess saw what he had done, she was very sorry, for though this horse ran like the wind, the other flashed like thought.
Who acts: prince, sisters, princess, horse, other · What happens: be, choose, start, see, do, run · To what, where: fattest, wind · 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, sisters, princess, horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 foolish | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foolish | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 foolish | cop |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 foolish | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 choose | mark |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 foolish | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fattest | det |
| 10 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 choose | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 started | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 started | aux |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 foolish | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 started | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 done | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sorry | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sorry | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sorry | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 sorry | advmod |
| 29 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 saw | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ran | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 ran | mark |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 35 ran | mark |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 horse | det |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ran | nsubj |
| 35 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 wind | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wind | det |
| 38 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ran | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 flashed | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 other | det |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 flashed | nsubj |
| 42 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 wind | acl:relcl |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 thought | case |
| 44 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 flashed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | enough, foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the fattest | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past · perfect | sisters = sister | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | is | past | princess | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | run | past | this horse | like the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | flash | participle | the other | the wind not said here | like thought | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
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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