The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 17
He found not a soul on board, but there was a very cosy little bed in the cabin, and an ample supply of all sorts of good things to eat and drink, which he made up his mind to enjoy until something new happened.
Who acts: Prince, cosy little bed, something · What happens: not find, be, eat, drink, make up, enjoy · To what, where: soul, board, mind, good things
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, cosy little bed, something), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 found | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soul | det |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 board | case |
| 7 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bed | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 cosy | advmod |
| 14 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bed | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bed | amod |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cabin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cabin | det |
| 19 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bed | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 supply | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 supply | cc |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 supply | det |
| 23 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 supply | amod |
| 24 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sorts | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sorts | det |
| 27 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 supply | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 things | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 things | amod |
| 30 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sorts | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 eat | mark |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 things | acl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drink | cc |
| 34 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 eat | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 made | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 made | nsubj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 made | nsubj |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 drink | ccomp |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 made | compound:prt |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 mind | nmod:poss |
| 41 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 made | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 enjoy | mark |
| 43 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 made | advcl |
| 44 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 47 happened | mark |
| 45 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 47 happened | nsubj |
| 46 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 something | amod |
| 47 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 enjoy | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | past | Prince | a soul | board | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | past | a cosy little bed in the cabin | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make up | past | Prince's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | enjoy | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | happen | past | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | sort | good things | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition 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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