The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 83
The morning after this adventure the prince and princess set out for the king’s palace, but found when they reached it, that he was already dead.
Who acts: adventure, palace · What happens: set out, find, reach, be · To what, where: princess, head
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 (adventure, palace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 adventure | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 adventure | det |
| 5 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adventure | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princess | cc |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adventure | conj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 princess | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dead | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 dead | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dead | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dead | cop |
| 28 | already | already | ADV | _ | 29 dead | advmod |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reached | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | princess not said here | for the king's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | morning | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | adventure | head | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | palace | dead property | 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: «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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