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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 21

Never was any prince so happy as he, and he rode and rode till at length he came to a king’s palace.

Who acts: prince, king · What happens: not be, ride, come · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king), 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

advmodcopdetnsubjadvmodcaseoblpunctccnsubjparataxisccconjcasecaseoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootNeverADVwasAUXanyDETprinceNOUNsoADVhappyADJasADPhePRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONrodeVERBandCCONJrodeVERBtillADPatADPlengthNOUNhePRONcameVERBtoADPaDETkingNOUN’sPARTpalaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NeverneverADVPronType=Neg6 happyadvmod
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 happycop
3anyanyDETPronType=Ind4 princedet
4princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing6 happynsubj
5sosoADV_6 happyadvmod
6happyhappyADJDegree=Posrootroot
7asasADP_8 hecase
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 happyobl
9,,PUNCT_12 rodepunct
10andandCCONJ_12 rodecc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 rodensubj
12roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 happyparataxis
13andandCCONJ_14 rodecc
14roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 rodeconj
15tilltillADP_17 lengthcase
16atatADP_17 lengthcase
17lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing14 rodeobl
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 camensubj
19camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 lengthacl:relcl
20totoADP_24 palacecase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 kingdet
22kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing24 palacenmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 kingcase
24palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 cameobl
25..PUNCT_6 happypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not ispastany princeas king; happy propertytree rules
2ridepastkingvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3ridepastking not said heretill lengthvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4comepastkinglength not said hereto a king's palacevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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