The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 63
So the princes that were courting the eldest ladies wouldn’t give peace or ease to their lovers nor the king till they got consent to the marriage, and it was to take place this morning.
Who acts: princes, peace, it · What happens: court, not give, get, be · To what, where: eldest ladies, peace, lovers, consent
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 (princes, peace, it), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 give | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 courting | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 courting | aux |
| 6 | courting | court | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 princes | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladies | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 ladies | amod |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 courting | obj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 give | advmod |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ease | cc |
| 15 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peace | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lovers | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obl |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 king | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lovers | conj |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 got | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | advcl |
| 25 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 marriage | det |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 take | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 take | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 take | cop |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 take | mark |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 morning | det |
| 37 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | court | past · progressive | the princes | the eldest ladies | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not give | would | the princes | peace or ease | peace's lovers nor the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to lover=Recipient | |||
| 3 | get | past | peace | consent | to the marriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | it | morning | take 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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