The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 1
Away went the prince, and bedad! it’s tired and hungry he was when he reached the first castle, at sunset.
Who acts: bedad, he · What happens: go, be · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bedad, he), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bedad | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bedad | cc |
| 7 | bedad | bedad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 tired | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tired | cop |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hungry | cc |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tired | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reached | cop |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 reached | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 castle | amod |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sunset | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sunset | case |
| 24 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince | bedad obl; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | bedad | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | bedad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | he | sunset | reach 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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