The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 19
The King’s son, who had lost his way out hunting, perceived this lovely damsel a long way off, and wished to look at her closer.
Who acts: son, way · What happens: lose, hunt, perceive, wish, look · To what, where: way, lovely damsel
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, way), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceived | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 hunting | advmod |
| 12 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 14 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 damsel | det |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 damsel | amod |
| 17 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceived | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceived | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 20 way | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wished | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wished | cc |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 perceived | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 look | mark |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wished | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 closer | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 closer | nmod:poss |
| 29 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | the King's son | son's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | son's way not said here | out property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | perceive | past | the King's son | this lovely damsel | a long way obl:unmarked | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer damsel=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | wish | participle | the King's son not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | at Princess's closer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at close=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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