The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 87
The Prince had no wish to take such an insignificant bundle with him; but he didn’t like to hurt Puddocky’s feelings by refusing it, so he took up the little packet, put it in his pocket, and bade the little toad farewell.
Who acts: Prince, little packet, bade · What happens: have, take, not like, hurt, refuse, take up · To what, where: wish, insignificant bundle, feelings, bundle, little packet, packet
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, little packet, bade), 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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wish | det |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | acl |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 bundle | det:predet |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bundle | det |
| 10 | insignificant | insignificant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bundle | amod |
| 11 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 like | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 like | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hurt | mark |
| 21 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 like | xcomp |
| 22 | Puddocky | Puddocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Puddocky | case |
| 24 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hurt | obj |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 26 refusing | mark |
| 26 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 hurt | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 refusing | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 took | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 took | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 took | nsubj |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 took | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 packet | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 packet | amod |
| 35 | packet | packet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 put | punct |
| 37 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 packet | acl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 put | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 pocket | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 41 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 put | obl | ||
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 toad | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 toad | cc |
| 44 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 toad | nsubj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 toad | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 toad | amod |
| 47 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | parataxis |
| 48 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 47 toad | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Prince | no wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | such insignificant bundle | with Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | Prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hurt not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Puddocky's feelings | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient | ||||
| 5 | refuse | gerund | Prince not said here | bundle | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take up | past | Prince | the little packet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme | ||||
| 7 | put | infinitive | the little packet not said here | packet | Prince's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 8 | toad | bade | farewell property | tree rules |
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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