The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 6
In the morning the prince called his chief wazir and ordered him to shut up in the chest in which the princess had been found a great monkey that lived chained up in the palace, and to take the chest back to the river and set it afloat once more and watch what became of it.
Who acts: prince, great monkey · What happens: call, order, shut up, find, live, chain up · To what, where: chief wazir, prince, chest, princess, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, great monkey), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wazir | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wazir | amod |
| 9 | wazir | wazir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 shut | mark |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 shut | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 chest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chest | det |
| 18 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 found | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 chest | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 monkey | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monkey | amod |
| 28 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 31 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 lived | xcomp |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 chained | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chained | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 take | mark |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 chest | det |
| 41 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 take | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 river | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 river | det |
| 45 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 back | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 set | cc |
| 47 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | conj |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 set | obj |
| 49 | afloat | afloat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 set | xcomp |
| 50 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 51 more | advmod |
| 51 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 47 set | advmod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 watch | cc |
| 53 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | conj |
| 54 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 55 became | nsubj |
| 55 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 watch | ccomp |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 it | case |
| 57 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 became | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | the prince | prince's chief wazir | morning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wazir=Recipient | |||
| 2 | order | past | the prince not said here | prince | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shut up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the chest | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect · passive | the princess | the chest | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme monkey=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | live | past | a great monkey | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | chain up | participle | a great monkey not said here | the palace | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | the chest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | |||||
| 8 | set | past | chest | afloat property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 9 | watch | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | become | past | of palace | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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