The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 26
After his long imprisonment at sea the Prince was delighted with the sight of the great trees which grew down to the very edge of the water, and leaping lightly on shore he speedily lost himself in the thick forest.
Who acts: Prince, great trees · What happens: be, grow down, leap, lose, imprison, sight · To what, where: shore, Prince, thick forest, sea, great trees
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, great trees), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 imprisonment | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 imprisonment | nmod:poss |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 imprisonment | amod |
| 4 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imprisonment | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delighted | cop |
| 10 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sight | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 trees | acl:relcl |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 grew | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 edge | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 edge | advmod |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edge | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 leaping | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 leaping | cc |
| 30 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 delighted | advcl |
| 31 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 30 leaping | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 shore | case |
| 33 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leaping | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lost | nsubj |
| 35 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 36 lost | advmod |
| 36 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shore | acl:relcl |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 lost | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 forest | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 forest | det |
| 40 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 forest | amod |
| 41 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lost | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | after Prince's long imprisonment at sea | with the sight of the great trees; delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow down | past | the great trees | to the edge of the water; down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap | gerund | the Prince not said here | shore | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | lose | past | Prince | Prince | the thick forest | speedily property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | imprison | Prince | sea | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place | |||||
| 6 | sight | the great trees | nom sight «cognition 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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