English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 27
As twelve o clock rings, however, the sick prince rises, dresses himself, and slips downstairs.
Who acts: sick prince · What happens: rise, dress, slip · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick prince), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 twelve | case |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 rises | obl |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 rings | case |
| 4 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rings | compound |
| 5 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rises | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rings | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 rises | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rises | nsubj |
| 12 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dresses | punct |
| 14 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rises | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 dresses | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slips | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slips | cc |
| 18 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rises | conj |
| 19 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 18 slips | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the sick prince | as twelve; of clock rings; however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of ring=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | dress | present | the sick prince not said here | prince | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slip | present | the sick prince not said here | downstairs property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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