The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 37
The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of being by himself, and began to look about for something to amuse him.
What happens: leave, get, be, begin, look, amuse · To what, where: prince, castle
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 left | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 got | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 himself | cop |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 tired | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 look | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 something | case |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 look | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 amuse | mark |
| 28 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 something | acl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 amuse | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the prince | the castle | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 2 | get | past | soon, tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | for something; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | |||||
| 6 | amuse | to-infinitive | prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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