The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 11
The Prince on the other hand wandering continually across the meadows, his eyes fixed upon the ground, attentive to every movement among the moles.
Who acts: other hand · What happens: wonder, fix · To what, where: meadows, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other hand), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 hand | acl |
| 8 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 7 wandering | advmod |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 meadows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meadows | det |
| 11 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wandering | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meadows | conj |
| 15 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 eyes | acl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fixed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attentive | punct |
| 20 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meadows | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 movement | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 movement | det |
| 23 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attentive | obl |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 moles | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moles | det |
| 26 | moles | mole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 attentive | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the other hand not said here | the meadows and Prince's eyes | continually property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | fix | participle | Prince's eyes not said here | upon the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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