The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 4
The Prince thanked her heartily and went on his way in the best of spirits, while the little puddock crept slowly back into the water.
Who acts: Prince, little puddock · What happens: thank, go, creep back · To what, where: heartily, way, water
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, little puddock), 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 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 best | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 best | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spirits | case |
| 15 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 best | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crept | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 crept | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 puddock | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 puddock | amod |
| 20 | puddock | puddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | nsubj |
| 21 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 22 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 21 crept | advmod |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 crept | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Prince | toad's heartily | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartily=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Prince not said here | Prince's way | in the best of spirits | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 3 | creep back | past | the little puddock | the water | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=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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