The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 65
And all that the princess could get from him was that he would always wear a sword, and have somebody with him when he left the palace.
Who acts: princess, prince · What happens: get, be, have, leave · To what, where: somebody, palace
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 (princess, prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 get | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wear | cop |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 wear | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wear | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wear | aux |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 wear | advmod |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 him | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wear | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | conj |
| 21 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 somebody | nmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 left | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 left | nsubj |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | the princess | from prince | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | would · past | prince | always, wear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the princess not said here | somebody | with prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Patient | |||
| 4 | leave | past | prince | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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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