The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 30
It was not long till the prince and princess had their children with them, and then they set out for their own palace.
Who acts: building, prince, children · What happens: not be, have, set out · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (building, prince, children), 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 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princess | cc |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prince | conj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 children | nmod:poss |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 set | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 palace | amod |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | building | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the prince and princess | miles's children | with miles = mile | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 3 | set out | past | children = child | then | for children's own palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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