The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 72
The Prince hurried to the town, but Hyacinthia remained behind disguised as a white milestone on the road.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: hurry, disguise · To what, where: town, Hyacinthia
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 disguised | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 disguised | cc |
| 9 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 disguised | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disguised | aux:pass |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 12 disguised | advmod |
| 12 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hurried | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 milestone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 milestone | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 milestone | amod |
| 16 | milestone | milestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disguised | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 milestone | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the Prince | the town | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | disguise | past · passive | Hyacinthia | as a white milestone on the road; behind property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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