The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 56
The prince thanked the queen for her gifts, and, bidding her farewell, went on his journey.
Who acts: prince, queen · What happens: thank, bid, go, gift, journey · To what, where: queen, farewell, journey
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 gifts | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 queen | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bidding | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bidding | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bidding | punct |
| 12 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 farewell | nmod:poss |
| 14 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bidding | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | the queen | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent queen=Theme for gift=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bid | gerund | the prince not said here | queen's farewell | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the prince not said here | prince's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 4 | gift | queen | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | journey | prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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