The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 77
The prince crept tremblingly into the kennel, and began to regret the daring which had brought him into this scrape.
Who acts: prince · What happens: creep, begin, regret, bring · To what, where: kennel, daring, scrape
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), 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 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tremblingly | tremblingly | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 kennel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kennel | det |
| 7 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 regret | mark |
| 12 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daring | det |
| 14 | daring | daring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 regret | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 daring | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 scrape | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 scrape | det |
| 21 | scrape | scrape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the prince | the kennel | tremblingly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kennel=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | regret | to-infinitive | the daring | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daring=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the daring | this scrape | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=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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