The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 43
Prince Vivien was wild with aggravation, but there was nothing to be done.
Who acts: Vivien, nothing · What happens: be, do
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 (Vivien, nothing), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vivien | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wild | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wild | cop |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 aggravation | case |
| 6 | aggravation | aggravation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wild | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wild | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nothing | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Vivien Prince | with aggravation; wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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