The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 28
Now the prince had pretended to be ill in order to soften his parent’s hearts, and the next day he declared he felt better, and, getting into his litter, was carried to the palace in state, drums being beaten all along the road.
Who acts: king · What happens: pretend, be, soften, declare, feel, carry · To what, where: prince, order, hearts, palace, drums · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pretended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretended | aux |
| 5 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ill | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ill | cop |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pretended | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretended | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 soften | mark |
| 12 | soften | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pretended | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 parent | nmod:poss |
| 14 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 parent | case |
| 16 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 soften | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 declared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 declared | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 day | amod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 declared | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 declared | nsubj |
| 23 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretended | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 declared | ccomp |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 felt | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 carried | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 carried | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 getting | punct |
| 30 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 carried | aux:pass |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 litter | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 litter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 getting | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 getting | punct |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 carried | aux:pass |
| 36 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 declared | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carried | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 state | case |
| 41 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 palace | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 beaten | punct |
| 43 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 beaten | nsubj |
| 44 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 beaten | aux:pass |
| 45 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 carried | conj |
| 46 | all | all | ADV | _ | 49 road | advmod |
| 47 | along | along | ADP | _ | 49 road | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 road | det |
| 49 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 beaten | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past · perfect · passive | the prince | order | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | soften | to-infinitive | king's parent's hearts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | king | day | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | king | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund · passive | king not said here | the palace in state | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to palace=Destination | ||||
| 7 | beat | gerund · passive | drums | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient road=Result |
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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