The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 81
Well, three princes came to court them, and two of them were exactly like the eldest ladies, and one was just as lovable as the youngest.
Who acts: three princes, one · What happens: come, be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three princes, one), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 princes | nummod |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 court | mark |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 court | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ladies | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ladies | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 ladies | nummod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 two | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ladies | cop |
| 15 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 19 ladies | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 ladies | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ladies | det |
| 18 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 ladies | amod |
| 19 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lovable | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lovable | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 lovable | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lovable | cop |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 lovable | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 lovable | advmod |
| 26 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 youngest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 youngest | det |
| 29 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 lovable | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | three princes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | like the two eldest ladies; exactly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | one | as the youngest; lovable 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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