The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 66
When the prince and princess had been married a few months, the prince heard that his stepmother was dead, and his father was old and ill, and longing to have his eldest son by his side again.
Who acts: prince, stepmother, father · What happens: marry, hear, be, long, have · To what, where: prince, eldest son · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stepmother, father), 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 | 8 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princess | cc |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 heard | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 months | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 months | amod |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 married | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heard | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 old | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 old | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 old | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 old | cop |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heard | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ill | cc |
| 28 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 old | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 longing | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 longing | cc |
| 31 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 heard | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 longing | xcomp |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 son | amod |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 side | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 side | nmod:poss |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obl |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 have | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the prince and princess | month | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince's stepmother | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | prince's father | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | prince's father not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | long | gerund | the prince not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | prince's eldest son | again | by prince's side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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