The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 15
This abrupt departure was a great blow to the State, especially as no one had any idea what had become of the Prince.
Who acts: abrupt departure, one, idea · What happens: be, have, become · To what, where: great blow, idea
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 (abrupt departure, one, idea), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 departure | det |
| 2 | abrupt | abrupt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 departure | amod |
| 3 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blow | amod |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 State | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 State | det |
| 10 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | conj |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 idea | det |
| 18 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 idea | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Prince | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Prince | det |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 become | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this abrupt departure | a great blow | to the State | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | no one | any idea | especially property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | any idea | of the Prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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