The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 67
But the prince remained, and soon he saw a movement in the water a long way off.
Who acts: prince, shore · What happens: remain, see · To what, where: movement, water
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, shore), 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 | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 movement | det |
| 11 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 movement | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 way | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | shore | a movement | the water | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer movement=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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