The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 61
And the prince never went back to his father’s throne, but lived peacefully with his wife in the forest, where, if they are not dead, they are living still.
Who acts: prince, queen · What happens: not go back, live, not be
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, queen), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 throne | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throne | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 where | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 wife | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dead | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 dead | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dead | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 dead | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 dead | advmod |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lived | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 living | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 living | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 living | aux |
| 33 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 dead | conj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 living | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go back | past | the prince | to prince's father's throne result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to throne=Result | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the prince not said here | with prince's wife in the forest; peacefully property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location | ||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | queen | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present · progressive | queen | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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