The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 108
‘This time you’ve made a mistake,’ thought Prince Milan, and going to his room he sat down at the window.
Who acts: you, Milan · What happens: have, make, think, go, sit down · To what, where: time, mistake, Prince Milan, room, window
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Milan), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ’ve | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mistake | det |
| 8 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Milan | compound |
| 13 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sat | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | this time not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a mistake | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Prince Milan | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot milan=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | Milan not said here | Milan's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | Milan | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
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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