The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 19
But the prince didn’t leave the castle of Seven Inches without being provided with something good.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not leave, provide · To what, where: 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 (prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 leave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 leave | advmod |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Inches | case |
| 10 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Inches | nummod |
| 11 | Inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 castle | nmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 provided | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 provided | aux:pass |
| 14 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 leave | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 something | case |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 provided | obl |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 something | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · do-support | the prince | the castle of Seven Inches | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | provide | gerund · passive | the prince not said here | with something | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with something=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 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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