The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 92
And the prince did as he was bid, and when midnight struck he crept back to the top of the castle.
Who acts: prince, midnight · What happens: do, bid, strike, creep back · To what, where: prince, top
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 (prince, midnight), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bid | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bid | aux:pass |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crept | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crept | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 struck | advmod |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | nsubj |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crept | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crept | nsubj |
| 15 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 crept | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 top | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 top | det |
| 19 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crept | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 top | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | midnight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | creep back | past | prince | the top of the castle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=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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