The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 97
The prince thought, from this, he had leave to speak, but his master turned on him with a face of thunder and exclaimed:
Who acts: prince, master · What happens: think, have, leave, speak, turn, exclaim · To what, where: this · 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, master), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 this | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 leave | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 thunder | case |
| 24 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 exclaimed | cc |
| 26 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the prince | this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | prince's master | on prince; with a face of thunder | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | exclaim speech: express | past | prince's master not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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