The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 125
But after a while the prince turned round, and walking past them in to the palace he bade the slaves bring him mourning.
Who acts: prince, slaves · What happens: turn round, walk, bade, bring, mourn · To what, where: palace, prince
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, slaves), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bade | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bade | cc |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 bade | advcl |
| 12 | past | past | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walking | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walking | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bade | nsubj |
| 19 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 slaves | det |
| 21 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bring | nsubj |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bade | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | mourning | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 bring | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | the prince | while | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | prince not said here | the palace | past father | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bade | past | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | present | the slaves | prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | mourn | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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