The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 78
Then he looked at his solemn and lugubrious neighbours, and saw that each one was supplied with a long hollow reed through which he slowly sucked up his portion, and the Prince was obliged to do the same, though he found it a frightfully tedious process.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: look, see, supply, suck up, oblige, do · To what, where: one, portion, long hollow reed, Prince, same · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 neighbours | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 6 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neighbours | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lugubrious | cc |
| 8 | lugubrious | lugubrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 solemn | conj |
| 9 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 supplied | mark |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 supplied | aux:pass |
| 17 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 reed | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 reed | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reed | amod |
| 21 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reed | amod |
| 22 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 supplied | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sucked | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sucked | nsubj |
| 26 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 27 sucked | advmod |
| 27 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 reed | acl:relcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 sucked | compound:prt |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 portion | nmod:poss |
| 30 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sucked | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 obliged | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 obliged | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Prince | det |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 obliged | aux:pass |
| 36 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 do | mark |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 obliged | xcomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 same | det |
| 40 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 do | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 found | punct |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 found | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 found | nsubj |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 obliged | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 found | obj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 process | det |
| 47 | frightfully | frightfully | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 process | amod |
| 48 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 process | amod |
| 49 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 found | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Prince | then | at Prince's solemn neighbours | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at neighbour=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | supply | past · passive | each one | with a long hollow reed | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with reed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suck up | past | Prince | Prince's portion | a long hollow reed | slowly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent portion=Source | ||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | the Prince | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | find | past | Prince | portion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme process=Attribute |
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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