Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 21
But the lion was an enchanted prince.
Who acts: lion · What happens: enchant, be · To what, where: enchanted prince
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 prince | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prince | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prince | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the lion | a enchanted prince | tree rules |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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