The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 27
The frozen breath always gave the same answer, but the Prince never came.
Who acts: frozen breath, Prince · What happens: give, not come · To what, where: same answer
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 (frozen breath, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 breath | det |
| 2 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 breath | amod |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 answer | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answer | amod |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the frozen breath | the same answer | always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | |||
| 2 | not come | past | the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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