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More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 61

The young Prince had a good night's rest, and changed all the appearance of the place by cutting his friend's head off before he started in the morning.

Who acts: young Prince, Prince · What happens: have, change, cut off, start · To what, where: rest, appearance, head

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, 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

detamodnsubjdetamodnmod:posscaseobjpunctccconjdet:predetdetobjcasedetnmodmarkadvclnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjcompound:prtmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETyoungADJPrincePROPNhadVERBaDETgoodADJnightNOUN'sPARTrestNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJchangedVERBallDETtheDETappearanceNOUNofADPtheDETplaceNOUNbySCONJcuttingVERBhisPRONfriendNOUN'sPARTheadNOUNoffADPbeforeSCONJhePRONstartedVERBinADPtheDETmorningNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Princedet
2youngyoungADJDegree=Pos3 Princeamod
3PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing4 hadnsubj
4hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 nightdet
6goodgoodADJDegree=Pos7 nightamod
7nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing9 restnmod:poss
8's'sPART_7 nightcase
9restrestNOUNNumber=Sing4 hadobj
10,,PUNCT_12 changedpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 changedcc
12changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 hadconj
13allallDETPronType=Tot15 appearancedet:predet
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 appearancedet
15appearanceappearanceNOUNNumber=Sing12 changedobj
16ofofADP_18 placecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 placedet
18placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing15 appearancenmod
19bybySCONJ_20 cuttingmark
20cuttingcutVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 changedadvcl
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 friendnmod:poss
22friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing24 headnmod:poss
23's'sPART_22 friendcase
24headheadNOUNNumber=Sing20 cuttingobj
25offoffADP_20 cuttingcompound:prt
26beforebeforeSCONJ_28 startedmark
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 startednsubj
28startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 cuttingadvcl
29ininADP_31 morningcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 morningdet
31morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing28 startedobl
32..PUNCT_4 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastthe young Princea good night's restvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
2changepastthe young Prince not said hereall appearance of the placevn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
3cut offgerundthe young Prince not said herePrince's friend's headvn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4startpastPrincemorningvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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