The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 94
After supper that night, the old man said to the prince, ‘For two days you may rest from the fatigues of the journey, and look about the house.
Who acts: old man, you · What happens: say, rest, look, fatigue · To what, where: prince, fatigues, journey · 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 (old man, you), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 supper | case |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 supper | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 supper | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
| 15 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 rest | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rest | aux |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 fatigues | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fatigues | det |
| 23 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fatigues | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 look | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 look | cc |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 rest | conj |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 look | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | the prince | after supper that night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | rest | may | you | the fatigues of the journey | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | you not said here | about the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fatigue | the journey | nom fatigue «state 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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