The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 14
As it was, he simply turned his horse’s head, without another thought than that of getting out of the kingdom as soon as possible.
Who acts: instant, Vivien, thought · What happens: be, turn, get out · To what, where: head, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant, Vivien, thought), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 thought | det |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thought | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 getting | mark |
| 19 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 thought | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 getting | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 getting | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 possible | mark |
| 27 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 soon | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | instant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | Vivien | Vivien's horse's head | without another thought than that; simply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | get out | gerund | another thought than that not said here | the kingdom | soon 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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