The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 90
The prince did not at all like the idea of dining off scraps, which he helped the girl to pick up, but, after all, he found that there was plenty to eat, and that the food was very good.
Who acts: prince, idea, scraps, girl, plenty, food · What happens: do, dine off, help, pick up, find, be · To what, where: all, scraps, girl · 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, idea, scraps, girl), 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 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 all | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 idea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 all | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 dining | mark |
| 11 | dining | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 idea | acl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 dining | compound:prt |
| 13 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dining | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helped | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 helped | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 scraps | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 helped | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pick | mark |
| 21 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 pick | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 but | punct |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 found | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 all | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 was | mark |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 found | ccomp |
| 34 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 was | nsubj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 eat | mark |
| 36 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 plenty | acl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 good | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 good | cc |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 good | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 food | det |
| 41 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 good | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 good | cop |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 good | advmod |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | all | like the idea | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | dine off | gerund | the idea not said here | scraps | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | past | scraps | the girl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick up | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | past | prince | after all | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | be | past | plenty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eat | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the food | good property | tree rules |
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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