The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 67
The Prince felt certain that this must be the abode of the Oracle, and just as the sun was setting he reached its outermost gates.
Who acts: Prince, this, sun · What happens: feel, be, set, reach · To what, where: abode, outermost gates
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 (Prince, this, sun), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 abode | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 abode | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 abode | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 abode | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 abode | det |
| 10 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Oracle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Oracle | det |
| 13 | Oracle | Oracle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 abode | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reached | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reached | cc |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 setting | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 setting | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 setting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 setting | aux |
| 21 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 reached | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 gates | nmod:poss |
| 25 | outermost | outermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gates | amod |
| 26 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reached | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Prince | certain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | this | the abode | of the Oracle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | Prince | sun's outermost gates | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
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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