The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 40
At last it came to the turn of the youngest prince, and instead of going into the basket he put in a big stone.
Who acts: basket, prince · What happens: come, go, put · To what, where: last, basket, big stone
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 (basket, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 turn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 turn | det |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 going | mark |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 basket | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 basket | det |
| 19 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 basket | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 stone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stone | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stone | amod |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | basket | last | to the turn of the youngest prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | basket not said here | the basket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into basket=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | put | past | prince | the basket not said here | a big stone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme in stone=Destination |
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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