The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 81
Then the prince told him everything, and how he could never turn back till he had discovered the Land of Immortality.
Who acts: prince, king · What happens: tell, not turn back, discover · To what, where: everything, king, Land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turn | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 turn | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 turn | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 turn | advmod |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 turn | advmod |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 discovered | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 discovered | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 discovered | aux |
| 18 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 turn | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Land | det |
| 20 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discovered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Immortality | case |
| 22 | Immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Land | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince | everything | king | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic | ||
| 2 | not turn back | could | king | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | discover | past · perfect | king | the Land of Immortality | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
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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