The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 85
Then the Prince became most confidential and told the little creature why he had been sent out of his father’s kingdom.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: become, tell, send · To what, where: little creature, Prince, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 confidential | advmod |
| 6 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 creature | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 creature | amod |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 sent | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 sent | aux:pass |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Prince | then | confidential property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Prince not said here | the little creature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send | past · perfect · passive | Prince | Prince's father's kingdom | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme out kingdom=Initial_Location |
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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