The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 73
Then he could bear it no longer and turned back to the palace, in spite of the dragon’s threats.
Who acts: prince · What happens: bear, turn back, spite · To what, where: water, palace, threats
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bear | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | obj |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 bear | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spite | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spite | case |
| 16 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 threats | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 threats | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 dragon | case |
| 21 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spite | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | prince | water | then | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | turn back | past | prince not said here | the palace | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | spite | the dragon's threats | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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