The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 27
This went on for some time, till the prince could bear it no longer, and made up his mind he would search the world through for her.
Who acts: This, prince · What happens: go on, bear, make up, search, mind · To what, where: heart, mind, world
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 bear | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | aux |
| 12 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bear | obj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 bear | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 search | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 search | aux |
| 24 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 search | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 through | fixed |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 search | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | This | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | could | the prince | heart | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | make up | participle | prince's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | search | would | prince | the world | through witch | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location | |||
| 5 | mind | prince | nom mind «cognition 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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