The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 11
The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go round, lock up, bid, take, hunt · To what, where: these, bodies, mother, care
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 these | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 locked | cc |
| 8 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 locked | advmod |
| 9 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 locked | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 locked | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bidding | punct |
| 13 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 locked | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bidding | obj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bidding | xcomp |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 keys | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 keys | det |
| 20 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 hunting | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hunting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hunting | aux |
| 24 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 take | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go round | past | the prince | these | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lock up | past | the prince not said here | bodies = body | carefully property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the prince not said here | prince's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | the prince not said here | care | of the keys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of key=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | hunt | past · progressive | prince | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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