The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 23
He even came to wishing himself back at the Castle of the Black Bird, for there at least he saw some living beings, whereas on board the white-paper ship he was absolutely alone, and could not imagine how he was ever to get away from his wearisome prison.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: come, wish back, see, be, not imagine · To what, where: Prince, Castle, living beings, least, wearisome prison · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 wishing | mark |
| 5 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 wishing | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 wishing | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Castle | det |
| 10 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wishing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Bird | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bird | det |
| 13 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bird | compound |
| 14 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Castle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 there | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 saw | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 least | case |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 saw | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 beings | det |
| 23 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beings | amod |
| 24 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 whereas | punct |
| 26 | whereas | wherea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 beings | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 ship | case |
| 28 | board | board | ADP | _ | 33 ship | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ship | det |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 paper | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 white | punct |
| 32 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ship | compound |
| 33 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 alone | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 alone | cop |
| 36 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 37 alone | advmod |
| 37 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 33 ship | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 imagine | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 imagine | cc |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 imagine | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 imagine | advmod |
| 42 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 get | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 get | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 get | cop |
| 46 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 get | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 get | mark |
| 48 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 imagine | ccomp |
| 49 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 get | advmod |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 prison | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 prison | nmod:poss |
| 52 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 prison | amod |
| 53 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 get | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish back | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince | the Castle of the Black Bird | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | Prince | some living beings and whereas | least | on the paper ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer being=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | is | past | Prince | absolutely, alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not imagine | could | Prince not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Prince | Prince's wearisome prison | ever | away, get property | tree rules |
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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