The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 26
But when the Prince still did not appear, after a time he sent his servants a second time to bring him.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not appear, send, bring · To what, where: servants, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 8 appear | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 appear | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appear | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 appear | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appear | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 appear | advmod |
| 8 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appear | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servants | nmod:poss |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 time | acl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not appear | past · do-support | the Prince | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Prince | Prince's servants | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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