The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 72
Half mad with grief, the prince rode sadly on a little further, hardly knowing what he was doing.
Who acts: prince · What happens: ride, know, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 mad | advmod |
| 2 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 grief | case |
| 4 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mad | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mad | conj |
| 9 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 further | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 further | obl |
| 13 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 rode | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knowing | punct |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 knowing | advmod |
| 16 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rode | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 doing | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 doing | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 doing | aux |
| 20 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 knowing | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the prince | far, sadly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | the prince not said here | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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