The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 42

Well, the poor prince had nothing for it but to walk back to the castle; and through it and round it he walked, and the finest of eating and drinking he got, and a bed of bog-down to sleep on, and long walks he took through gardens and lawns, but not a sight could he get, high or low, of Seven Inches.

Who acts: poor prince, basket, prince, long walks · What happens: have, walk back, walk, eat, drink, get · To what, where: nothing, finest, gardens, sight

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 (poor prince, basket, prince, long walks), 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	_	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prince	amod
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nothing	nmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 walk	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 walk	mark
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 walk	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walk	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 walked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 walked	cc
19	through	through	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 walked	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 it	cc
22	round	round	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 it	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 walked	nsubj
25	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 finest	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 finest	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 finest	det
29	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 walked	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 eating	mark
31	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 finest	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drinking	cc
33	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 eating	conj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 drinking	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bed	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bed	det
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 down	case
41	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 down	nsubj
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 down	punct
43	down	down	ADV	_	39 bed	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 sleep	mark
45	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 down	advcl
46	on	on	ADP	_	45 sleep	compound:prt
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 took	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 took	cc
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 walks	amod
50	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 took	nsubj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 took	nsubj
52	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
53	through	through	ADP	_	54 gardens	case
54	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 took	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 lawns	cc
56	lawns	lawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 gardens	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 get	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 get	cc
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 sight	advmod
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 sight	det
61	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 get	obl
62	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 get	aux
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 get	nsubj
64	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 took	parataxis
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 high	punct
66	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 get	xcomp
67	or	or	CCONJ	_	68 low	cc
68	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 high	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 Inches	punct
70	of	of	ADP	_	72 Inches	case
71	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	72 Inches	nummod
72	Inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 get	conj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor prince	nothing		for basket	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	walk back	to-infinitive	the poor prince not said here			to the castle result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result
3	walk	past	basket	the finest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	gerund	basket not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	gerund	basket not said here				tree rules
6	get	past	prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	sleep on	to-infinitive	the poor prince not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	past	long walks		gardens and lawns		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	get	could	prince	a sight		high property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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