The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 45
The king’s daughter waited for him in vain to claim his prize, for he went back to the wood, and got off his horse, and put on his old clothes, and bade the box place some gold in his pockets.
Who acts: daughter, horse · What happens: wait, claim, go back, get off, put · To what, where: vain, prize, horse, bade, old clothes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waited | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waited | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 claim | mark |
| 11 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 waited | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prize | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claim | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 got | compound:prt |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 waited | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 clothes | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 clothes | amod |
| 34 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 put | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bade | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bade | cc |
| 37 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 place | det |
| 39 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 place | compound |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bade | appos |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 gold | det |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 place | appos |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 pockets | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 45 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 place | nmod | |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the king's daughter | vain | for horse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | the king's daughter not said here | horse's prize | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prize=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | horse | to the wood result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result | ||||
| 4 | get off | past | the king's daughter not said here | horse's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | put | participle | the king's daughter not said here | bade | horse's old clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=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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