The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 51
When all was over, and the power of the dragon was broken for ever, he rode quickly back to the castle, and was ready to receive the prince with open arms, and to promise him his daughter to wife.
Who acts: all, dragon · What happens: be, break, ride back, receive, promise · To what, where: power, castle, prince, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, dragon), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 over | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 broken | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 broken | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 power | det |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dragon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 power | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux:pass |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ever | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 broken | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | parataxis |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 rode | advmod |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 rode | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ready | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ready | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rode | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 receive | mark |
| 29 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ready | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 receive | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 arms | case |
| 33 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 arms | amod |
| 34 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 receive | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 promise | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 promise | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 promise | mark |
| 38 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rode | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 promise | obj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 41 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 promise | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 wife | mark |
| 43 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 promise | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | the power of the dragon | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ride back | past | dragon | the castle | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | past | dragon not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | the prince | with open arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | prince | dragon's daughter | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Goal he=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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