The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 72
It wasn’t long till she heard how a young prince, that was just arrived, was living in the palace of the young mistress.
Who acts: thread, half · What happens: not be, hear, arrive, live · To what, where: young prince, that, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, half), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 living | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 heard | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 prince | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arrived | aux:pass |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 arrived | advmod |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 living | aux |
| 19 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 living | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mistress | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mistress | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mistress | amod |
| 26 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | thread | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | half | a young prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | past · progressive | the palace of the young mistress | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
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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