The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 90
Prince Vivien said that, for his part, he had been kept a great deal too still, and had not found it at all amusing, and then he recounted all his adventures with breathless rapidity.
Who acts: Vivien · What happens: say, keep, not find, recount, adventure · To what, where: Vivien, deal, adventures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vivien), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vivien | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 kept | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 part | nmod:poss |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 part | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 kept | aux:pass |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 deal | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deal | amod |
| 16 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 still | advmod |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 kept | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 found | advmod |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 amusing | obl |
| 27 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 found | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 recounted | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 recounted | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 recounted | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 recounted | nsubj |
| 32 | recounted | recount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 adventures | det:predet |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 35 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 recounted | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 rapidity | case |
| 37 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rapidity | amod |
| 38 | rapidity | rapidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 adventures | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Vivien Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect · passive | Vivien | still | for Vivien's part | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme deal=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not find | past · perfect | Vivien Prince not said here | deal | amusing property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | recount speech: other | past | Vivien | Vivien's adventures | then | with breathless rapidity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic | ||
| 5 | adventure | Vivien | with breathless rapidity | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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