Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 6
At last Prince Llewelyn could wait no longer and went off to the hunt without Gellert.
Who acts: Llewelyn · What happens: wait, go off
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 (Llewelyn), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Prince | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | obl |
| 4 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 wait | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hunt | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hunt | det |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 Gellert | case |
| 16 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | could | Llewelyn | at last Prince; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Location | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | Llewelyn not said here | to the hunt; without Gellert | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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: «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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