The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 102
But the prince did not waver, and declared he would abide by his words.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not waver, declare, abide, word
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 waver | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waver | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waver | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 waver | advmod |
| 6 | waver | waver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 declared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 declared | cc |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waver | advcl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 abide | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 abide | aux |
| 12 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 declared | xcomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 abide | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waver | past · do-support | the prince | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the prince not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | abide | would | prince | by prince's words | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | prince | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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