The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 35

By and bye a baby was born to her, and soon after that the prince was sent on a journey by his father to visit some of the distant towns of the kingdom, and to set right things that had gone wrong.

Who acts: father, right things · What happens: bye, bear, send, visit, set, go · To what, where: baby, girl, prince, journey, some, right things

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 (father, right things), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 bye	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bye	cc
3	bye	bye	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 born	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 born	aux:pass
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bye	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 born	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 visit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 visit	cc
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 visit	advmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	12 soon	fixed
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 sent	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sent	aux:pass
18	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 visit	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 journey	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 journey	det
21	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 father	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 visit	mark
26	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 bye	conj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 visit	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 towns	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 towns	det
30	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 towns	amod
31	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 some	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 towns	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 set	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 set	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 set	mark
38	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 visit	conj
39	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 things	amod
40	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 set	obj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 gone	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 gone	aux
43	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 things	acl:relcl
44	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 gone	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bye	imperative						tree rules
2	bear	past · passive		a baby	girl			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	send	past · passive	prince's father	the prince		a journey		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	visit	to-infinitive		some			soon property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Co-Agent
5	set	to-infinitive		right things				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result
6	go	past · perfect	right things				wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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