The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 24
However, after a very long time, he did see land, and his impatience to be on shore was so great that he at once flung himself over the ship’s side that he might reach it sooner by swimming.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: see, be, fling, reach, swim · To what, where: land, shore, Prince, side
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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 impatience | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 impatience | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 16 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 great | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 great | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 great | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 great | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 great | advmod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 impatience | acl |
| 24 | that | that | ADP | _ | 25 he | case |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 great | obl |
| 26 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 28 flung | mark |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 flung | advmod |
| 28 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 flung | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ship | det |
| 32 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 ship | case |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flung | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 reach | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 reach | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 reach | aux |
| 38 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 flung | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 reach | obj |
| 40 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 reach | advmod |
| 41 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 42 swimming | mark |
| 42 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 reach | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Prince | land | time | Prince's impatience obl; however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | shore | that Prince; great property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fling | past | Prince not said here | Prince | the ship's side | once property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme over side=Destination | ||
| 4 | reach | might | Prince | land | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | swim | gerund | Prince not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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