The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 156
The news of his beautiful cousin’s arrival was soon carried to the Prince, but he had hardly the heart to go and see her.
Who acts: Prince, heart, beautiful cousin · What happens: carry, have, go, see, arrive · To what, where: news, Prince, heart, tone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, heart, beautiful cousin), 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 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arrival | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cousin | amod |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 cousin | case |
| 8 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 carried | advmod |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | conj |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 21 heart | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heart | det |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the news of joy's beautiful cousin's arrival | the Prince | soon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prince=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | past | Prince | the heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the heart not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the heart not said here | tone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | arrive | joy's beautiful cousin | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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