The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 25
Though Placida’s kingdom was a large one; his horse had carried him gallantly to the limit of it, but it could go no further, and the Prince was obliged to dismount and continue his journey on foot, though this slow mode of progress tired his patience severely.
Who acts: kingdom, horse, Prince · What happens: be, carry, go, oblige, dismount, continue · To what, where: large one, horse, Prince, journey, foot
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 (kingdom, horse, 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 one | mark |
| 2 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Placida | case |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | gallantly | gallantly | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 limit | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 limit | det |
| 18 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 limit | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | conj |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 further | advmod |
| 27 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 go | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 obliged | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 obliged | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 obliged | aux:pass |
| 33 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 carried | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 dismount | mark |
| 35 | dismount | dismount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 obliged | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 continue | cc |
| 37 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 dismount | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 journey | nmod:poss |
| 39 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 continue | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 foot | case |
| 41 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 continue | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 tired | punct |
| 43 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 49 tired | mark |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 mode | det |
| 45 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 mode | amod |
| 46 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tired | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 progress | case |
| 48 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 mode | nmod |
| 49 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 obliged | parataxis |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 patience | nmod:poss |
| 51 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tired | conj |
| 52 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 33 obliged | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Placida's kingdom | a large one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect · passive | Prince's horse | to the limit of kingdom; gallantly property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value | ||||
| 3 | go | could | horse | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | the Prince | severely property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | dismount | to-infinitive | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | continue | infinitive | Prince's journey | foot | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 7 | journey | Prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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