The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 95
As he was very tired, and the night was very dark, the prince determined not to wander further.
Who acts: Darkness, night, prince · What happens: be, determine, not wander
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 (Darkness, night, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 tired | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dark | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dark | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dark | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 dark | advmod |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tired | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 determined | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 determined | nsubj |
| 16 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wander | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wander | mark |
| 19 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 determined | xcomp |
| 20 | further | further | ADV | _ | 19 wander | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Darkness | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the night | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | the prince | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not wander | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | further property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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