The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 88
So in the evening, when the giant came home with the goats, the Prince went into the chamber and hummed and sang again as he had done on the other two evenings.
Who acts: giant, Prince · What happens: come, go, hum, sing, do · To what, where: chamber
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, Prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 goats | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goats | det |
| 13 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 chamber | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chamber | det |
| 20 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hummed | cc |
| 22 | hummed | hum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sang | cc |
| 24 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 sang | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 done | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 sang | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 evenings | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 evenings | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 evenings | amod |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 evenings | nummod |
| 34 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 done | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the giant | evening | with the goats; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Prince | the chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hum | past | the Prince not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | the Prince not said here | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | Prince | evening | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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