Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 14
Prince Llewelyn grew more and more terrified, and sought for his little son everywhere.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: grow, seek
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 terrified | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 terrified | advmod |
| 7 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 more | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sought | cc |
| 10 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sought | obl |
| 15 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 sought | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | past | Prince not said here | for Prince's little son; everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for son=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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