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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 67

They soon reached the prince’s country, and as he wished to bring his promised bride back in a fine coach he went on to the town to fetch one.

Who acts: Birds, Prince · What happens: reach, wish, bring, promise, go on, fetch · To what, where: country, promised bride, fine coach, one

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 (Birds, 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

nsubjadvmoddetnmod:posscaseobjpunctccmarknsubjconjmarkxcompnmod:possamodobjadvmodcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetoblmarkadvclobjpunctrootTheyPRONsoonADVreachedVERBtheDETprinceNOUN’sPARTcountryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJhePRONwishedVERBtoPARTbringVERBhisPRONpromisedVERBbrideNOUNbackADVinADPaDETfineADJcoachNOUNhePRONwentVERBonADVtoADPtheDETtownNOUNtoPARTfetchVERBoneNUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 reachednsubj
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos3 reachedadvmod
3reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 princedet
5princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing7 countrynmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 princecase
7countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing3 reachedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 wishedpunct
9andandCCONJ_12 wishedcc
10asasSCONJ_12 wishedmark
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 wishednsubj
12wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 reachedconj
13totoPART_14 bringmark
14bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf12 wishedxcomp
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 bridenmod:poss
16promisedpromiseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 brideamod
17bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing14 bringobj
18backbackADV_14 bringadvmod
19ininADP_22 coachcase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 coachdet
21finefineADJDegree=Pos22 coachamod
22coachcoachNOUNNumber=Sing14 bringobl
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 wentnsubj
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 coachacl:relcl
25ononADV_24 wentadvmod
26totoADP_28 towncase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 towndet
28towntownNOUNNumber=Sing24 wentobl
29totoPART_30 fetchmark
30fetchfetchVERBVerbForm=Inf24 wentadvcl
31oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card30 fetchobj
32..PUNCT_3 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastBirds = birdthe prince's countrysoon propertyvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme
2wishpastPrincevn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3bring not said to happento-infinitivePrince not said herePrince's promised bridea fine coachvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination
4promise speech: promiseparticiplevn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5go onpastPrincea fine coach not said hereto the towntree rules
6fetchto-infinitivePrince not said hereonevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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: «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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