The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 14

The Prince was immediately seized with the most ardent desire to go on board the ship, and shouted loudly to attract the notice of her crew, but no one answered.

Who acts: one · What happens: seize, go, shout, attract, answer, notice · To what, where: Prince, ship, notice, crew

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 (one), 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	5 seized	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	aux:pass
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 seized	advmod
5	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 desire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 desire	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 ardent	advmod
9	ardent	ardent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 desire	amod
10	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seized	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 ship	case
14	board	board	ADP	_	16 ship	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ship	det
16	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shouted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shouted	cc
19	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	19 shouted	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 attract	mark
22	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 shouted	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 notice	det
24	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 attract	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 crew	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 crew	nmod:poss
27	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 notice	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 answered	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 answered	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 answered	nsubj
32	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past · passive		the Prince		with the ardent desire; immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive			the ship		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location
3	shout speech: express	past				loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	attract	to-infinitive		the notice of sun's crew			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient
5	answer speech: assert	past	no one				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	notice			sun's crew			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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