More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 11
After they go to the palace, the Prince has a good wash, and appears before the Princess, when she asks him, Had he ever been at the Castle of Melvales?
Who acts: horses, Prince, thing · What happens: go, have, appear, ask, be · To what, where: palace, good wash, Prince, Castle
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, Prince, thing), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wash | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wash | amod |
| 13 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appears | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 appears | cc |
| 16 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 Princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 appears | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asks | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 asks | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asks | nsubj |
| 23 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asks | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Had | punct |
| 26 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | parataxis |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 Castle | nsubj |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 Castle | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 Castle | cop |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 Castle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Castle | det |
| 32 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Had | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Melvales | case |
| 34 | Melvales | Melvales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Castle | nmod |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | horses = horse | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the Prince | a good wash | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wash=Patient | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | the Prince not said here | before the Princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before princess=Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | thing | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | participle | Prince | the Castle | ever | of Melvales | tree rules |
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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