The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 85

The prince was much pleased with the doves and was coaxing them to come to him, when one fluttered on to the top of the window and said, ‘If you could only hear us speak, you would admire us still more.’

Who acts: prince, one, you, us · What happens: be, coax, come, flutter, say, hear · To what, where: doves, prince, top, us · 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, one, you, us), 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	5 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 doves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doves	det
8	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pleased	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 coaxing	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 coaxing	aux
11	coaxing	coax	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pleased	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 coaxing	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 coaxing	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fluttered	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 fluttered	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fluttered	nsubj
20	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pleased	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 top	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 top	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fluttered	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 top	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fluttered	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hear	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 hear	punct
32	If	if	SCONJ	_	36 hear	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 hear	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hear	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 hear	advmod
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 hear	obj
38	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 hear	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 admire	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 admire	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 admire	aux
42	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	conj
43	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 admire	obj
44	still	still	ADV	_	45 more	advmod
45	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 admire	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince				with the doves; pleased property	tree rules
2	coax	past · progressive	the prince not said here	doves = dove				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	come	to-infinitive	the prince not said here		prince			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	flutter	participle	one			the top of the window		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	one not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hear a condition, not said to happen	could	you	us				tree rules
7	speak speech: other	infinitive	us not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	admire	would	you	us				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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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