The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 23
For the sake of the princess, the fox let himself be softened, and he lived in the castle for many years, and played with Count Piro’s children.
Who acts: fox · What happens: let, soften, live, play · To what, where: fox, castle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sake | det |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sake | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sake | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | nsubj |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 softened | aux:pass |
| 13 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lived | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 years | amod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 played | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 played | cc |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 children | case |
| 28 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Piro | compound |
| 29 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 children | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Piro | case |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 played | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the fox | fox | for the sake of the princess | tree rules | |||
| 2 | soften | infinitive · passive | fox not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | live | past | fox | the castle | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 4 | play | past | the fox not said here | with Count Piro's children | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-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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