The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 62
Prince Milan was suddenly seized with an ardent desire to enter the town.
What happens: seize, enter · To what, where: Prince Milan, town
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: 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Milan | compound |
| 2 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | aux:pass |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 seized | advmod |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 desire | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desire | det |
| 8 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desire | amod |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 enter | mark |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seized | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | Prince Milan | with a ardent desire; suddenly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=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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