The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 77
But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn’t the least afraid, and approached the throne still on his knees.
Who acts: counsel, Prince · What happens: give, not be, approach · To what, where: Prince, throne, knees
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 (counsel, Prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 afraid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mindful | punct |
| 5 | mindful | mindful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 counsel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counsel | det |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mindful | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 counsel | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 afraid | det |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 afraid | amod |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 approached | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 approached | cc |
| 21 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 approached | obj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 approached | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 knees | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 knees | nmod:poss |
| 27 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 approached | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the counsel not said here | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the Prince | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | the Prince not said here | the throne | Prince's knees | still | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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