The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 61
Light of heart the king’s son went on his road, till he came to the green valley near his father’s palace.
Who acts: Light son, son · What happens: go, come, light · To what, where: road, palace, heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Light son, son), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | compound |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 road | nmod:poss |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 valley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 valley | det |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 valley | amod |
| 19 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 father | case |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the king's Light son | son's road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | son | son's father's palace | to the green valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | light | heart | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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