The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 13
Upon looking more attentively at it he found that it was one of the prettiest little ships he had ever seen, and the boat that belonged to it was made fast to the bank quite close to him.
Who acts: Prince, way, boat · What happens: look, find, be, see, belong, make · To what, where: one, prettiest little ships, way, boat
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, way, boat), 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 found | advcl |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 attentively | advmod |
| 4 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 2 looking | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looking | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 one | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 found | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ships | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ships | det |
| 15 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 ships | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ships | amod |
| 17 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 ships | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boat | det |
| 25 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 belonged | nsubj |
| 27 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 boat | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 belonged | obl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux:pass |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 found | conj |
| 32 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 bank | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 bank | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bank | det |
| 35 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 close | advmod |
| 37 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 close | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Prince not said here | at way; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | way | one | of the prettiest little ships | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Prince | the prettiest little ships not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | belong | past | the boat | way | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past · passive | the boat | to the bank; close property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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