The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 112
His servants obeyed him, and very soon in came an enchantingly handsome young prince, dressed in rich silk, ornamented with pearls and diamonds.
Who acts: servants, handsome young prince · What happens: obey, come, dress, ornament · To what, where: palace, handsome young prince, rich silk
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, handsome young 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 servants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 came | case |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 12 | enchantingly | enchantingly | ADV | _ | 13 handsome | advmod |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 prince | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 silk | case |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 silk | amod |
| 20 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dressed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ornamented | punct |
| 22 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 silk | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 pearls | case |
| 24 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ornamented | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 diamonds | cc |
| 26 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pearls | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | palace's servants | palace | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a handsome young prince | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | a handsome young prince not said here | rich silk | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ornament | participle | rich silk not said here | with pearls and diamonds | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
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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