The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 28
And the prince was glad to make peace, for he had caught a glimpse of the giant’s beautiful daughter, and from that day he often sought the giant’s house.
Who acts: prince, peace · What happens: be, make, catch, seek, glimpse · To what, where: peace, giant house, beautiful daughter
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, peace), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 glad | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | advcl |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 caught | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | aux |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 glad | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 glimpse | det |
| 15 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glimpse | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sought | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sought | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sought | nsubj |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 sought | advmod |
| 29 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 giant | det |
| 31 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 house | amod |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 giant | case |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sought | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | peace | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary glimpse=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | peace | giant house | day | often property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||
| 5 | glimpse | the giant's beautiful daughter | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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