The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 86
And another perched on a table and added, ‘Talk away, it might help him to remember!’
Who acts: table, prince · What happens: perch, add, talk away, help, remember · To what, where: another, table, prince · 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 (table, prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 perched | cc |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 perched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perched | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 added | cc |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perched | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Talk | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Talk | punct |
| 11 | Talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 added | ccomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 Talk | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Talk | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 remember | mark |
| 19 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 perched | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | participle · passive | another | a table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on table=Destination | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | talk away | infinitive | away property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | might | table | prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remember | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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