The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 79
Next morning, when the prince arrived to claim his bride, he found her wrapped in a large white veil.
Who acts: prince, bride · What happens: arrive, claim, find, wrap · To what, where: bride, large white veil
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, bride), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 arrived | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 claim | mark |
| 9 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 arrived | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claim | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 veil | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 veil | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 veil | amod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 veil | amod |
| 21 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrapped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | Prince's bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Prince | bride | morning | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | wrap | participle | bride not said here | a large white veil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in veil=Destination |
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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