The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 115
The King of Goldtown had a lovely daughter, and the prince, who soon heard about her beauty, could not rest till he saw her.
Who acts: King, prince · What happens: have, hear, not rest, see · To what, where: lovely daughter, Goldtown
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Goldtown | case |
| 4 | Goldtown | Goldtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rest | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rest | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rest | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 heard | advmod |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prince | acl:relcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rest | punct |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 rest | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 rest | advmod |
| 23 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 saw | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rest | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King of Goldtown | a lovely daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the prince | about Goldtown's beauty; soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not rest | could | the prince | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Prince | Goldtown | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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