The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 48
Prince Ring did as she wished and went back to his ship to wait, whilst she walked on into the forest till she reached the two oak trees.
Who acts: Prince, Signy · What happens: do, wish, go back, wait, walk on, reach · To what, where: forest, two oak trees
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Signy), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 wished | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wished | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ship | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wait | mark |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
| 16 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 18 walked | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wished | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walked | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 reached | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reached | nsubj |
| 25 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 walked | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trees | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 trees | nummod |
| 28 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trees | compound |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 reached | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | Signy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | Signy not said here | to Ring's ship result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result | ||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | Signy not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | walk on | past | Signy | into the forest result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result | ||||
| 6 | reach | past | Signy | the two oak trees | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=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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