The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 6
The youngest Prince was much disappointed that he too was not sent out on his travels; but his father wouldn’t hear of his going, for he had always been looked upon as the stupid one of the family, and the King was afraid of something happening to him.
Who acts: youngest Prince, father, king · What happens: be, not send out, travel, not hear, go, look · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest Prince, father, king), 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 | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disappointed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disappointed | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 disappointed | advmod |
| 6 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 sent | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 sent | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sent | advmod |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 disappointed | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sent | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 travels | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 travels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hear | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 hear | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hear | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 hear | advmod |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 disappointed | conj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 going | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 hear | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 looked | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 looked | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 looked | aux |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 looked | advmod |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 looked | aux:pass |
| 33 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hear | advcl |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 37 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looked | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 family | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 family | det |
| 41 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 one | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 afraid | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 afraid | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 King | det |
| 45 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 afraid | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 afraid | cop |
| 47 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 disappointed | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 something | case |
| 49 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 47 afraid | obl |
| 50 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 something | acl |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 him | case |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 happening | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the youngest Prince | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not send out | past · passive | king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not hear | would | king's father | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | gerund | king | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look | past · perfect · passive | king | upon the stupid one of the family; always property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the King | of something; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | happen | gerund | king | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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