The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 117
The prince left the room, rejoicing in his heart, and saying to himself, ‘Well, I shall soon get through that!
Who acts: prince, I · What happens: leave, rejoice, say, get · To what, where: room, heart, prince, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, I), 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 | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoicing | punct |
| 7 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rejoicing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saying | cc |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rejoicing | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 saying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 18 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 23 get | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 get | advmod |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 saying | advcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 get | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the prince | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | gerund | the prince not said here | prince's heart | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the prince not said here | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | get | shall | I | that | soon property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through that=Destination |
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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