The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 80
The hope of consulting the Oracle woke him very early the next morning, and his first demand was to be allowed to present himself before it, but, without replying, his attendants conducted him to a huge marble bath, very shallow at one end, and quite deep at the other, and gave him to understand that he was to go into it.
Who acts: hope, first demand, attendants, Prince · What happens: consult, wake, allow, present, reply, conduct · To what, where: Oracle, Prince, first demand, huge marble bath, demand
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 (hope, first demand, attendants, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hope | det |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 consulting | mark |
| 4 | consulting | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hope | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Oracle | det |
| 6 | Oracle | Oracle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consulting | obj |
| 7 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 woke | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 early | advmod |
| 10 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | amod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woke | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 allowed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 allowed | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 demand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 demand | amod |
| 18 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 allowed | aux:pass |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 allowed | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 allowed | aux:pass |
| 22 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 woke | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 present | mark |
| 24 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 allowed | xcomp |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 present | obj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 present | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 conducted | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 conducted | cc |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 but | punct |
| 31 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 32 replying | mark |
| 32 | replying | reply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 conducted | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 replying | punct |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 35 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 conducted | nsubj |
| 36 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woke | parataxis |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 conducted | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 bath | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 bath | det |
| 40 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bath | amod |
| 41 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bath | compound |
| 42 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 conducted | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 shallow | punct |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 shallow | advmod |
| 45 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bath | conj |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 end | case |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 end | nummod |
| 48 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shallow | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 deep | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 deep | cc |
| 51 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 52 deep | advmod |
| 52 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 conducted | conj |
| 53 | at | at | ADP | _ | 55 other | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 other | det |
| 55 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 deep | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 gave | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 gave | cc |
| 58 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woke | conj |
| 59 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 gave | iobj |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 understand | mark |
| 61 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 gave | xcomp |
| 62 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 66 go | mark |
| 63 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 go | nsubj |
| 64 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 66 go | cop |
| 65 | to | to | PART | _ | 66 go | mark |
| 66 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 61 understand | advcl |
| 67 | into | into | ADP | _ | 68 it | case |
| 68 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 go | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | gerund | the hope not said here | the Oracle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oracle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | the hope | Prince | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | allow | past · passive | Prince's first demand | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | present not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince's first demand not said here | Prince | before demand | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | gerund | Prince's attendants not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | conduct | past | Prince's attendants | Prince | a huge marble bath | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bath=Destination | |||
| 7 | give | past | the hope not said here | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | understand | to-infinitive | the hope not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is | past | Prince | demand | go property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | demand | Prince | nom demand «communication 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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