The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 70
For two days the search went on, and then it was somehow discovered that the only person with a lance wound in the leg was the princess herself.
Who acts: search, only person · What happens: go on, discover, be · To what, where: wound, princess
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (search, only person), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 search | det |
| 5 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discovered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 discovered | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 discovered | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 discovered | aux:pass |
| 13 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 14 discovered | advmod |
| 14 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 princess | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 princess | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wound | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wound | det |
| 21 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wound | compound |
| 22 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 person | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 leg | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 leg | det |
| 25 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wound | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 princess | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | obl |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 princess | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the search | day | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | wound | then | somehow property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the only person with a lance wound in the leg | the princess | Search nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/4/70/