The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 15
Next day, he went out after breakfast, and she sent the prince to the castle where the eldest sister was.
Who acts: Tibb, St., eldest sister · What happens: go out, send, be · To what, where: prince, castle
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 (Tibb, St., eldest sister), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 breakfast | case |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 castle | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sister | det |
| 20 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 sister | amod |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 where | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 where | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Tibb | after breakfast; day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | send | past | St. | the prince | the castle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | the eldest sister | where 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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