The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 1
The Prince, who this time never doubted the little toad’s power to help him, told her his difficulty at once.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not doubt, help, tell · To what, where: power, Prince, difficulty, toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. 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 | 8 doubted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 doubted | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 doubted | nsubj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doubted | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 doubted | advmod |
| 8 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 toad | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 toad | amod |
| 11 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 toad | case |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doubted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 doubted | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doubted | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 difficulty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 told | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 doubted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not doubt | past | the Prince | the little toad's power | time | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | Prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Prince not said here | Prince's difficulty | toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient difficulty=Topic |
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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