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The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 10

The Prince saw his brothers walking upon the terrace, each with a lovely princess, and they came to meet him, asking if he had also found a wife.

Who acts: Prince, brothers · What happens: see, walk, come, meet, ask, find · To what, where: brothers, terrace, prince, wife

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, brothers), 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

detnsubjnmod:possobjaclcasedetoblpunctnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompobjpunctadvclmarknsubjauxadvmodccompdetobjpunctrootTheDETPrincePROPNsawVERBhisPRONbrothersNOUNwalkingVERBuponADPtheDETterraceNOUN,PUNCTeachDETwithADPaDETlovelyADJprincessNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONcameVERBtoPARTmeetVERBhimPRON,PUNCTaskingVERBifSCONJhePRONhadAUXalsoADVfoundVERBaDETwifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Princedet
2PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 brothersnmod:poss
5brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur3 sawobj
6walkingwalkVERBVerbForm=Ger5 brothersacl
7uponuponADP_9 terracecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 terracedet
9terraceterraceNOUNNumber=Sing6 walkingobl
10,,PUNCT_11 eachpunct
11eacheachDETPronType=Tot9 terracenmod
12withwithADP_15 princesscase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 princessdet
14lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos15 princessamod
15princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing11 eachnmod
16,,PUNCT_19 camepunct
17andandCCONJ_19 camecc
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 camensubj
19camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawconj
20totoPART_21 meetmark
21meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf19 camexcomp
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 meetobj
23,,PUNCT_24 askingpunct
24askingaskVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 meetadvcl
25ififSCONJ_29 foundmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 foundnsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 foundaux
28alsoalsoADV_29 foundadvmod
29foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part24 askingccomp
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 wifedet
31wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing29 foundobj
32..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe Princeprince's brothersvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
2walkgerundprince's brothers not said herethe terrace eachvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon terrace=Trajectory
3comepastbrothers = brothertree rules
4meetto-infinitivebrothers = brother not said hereprincevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5ask speech: askgerundbrothers = brother not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6find a condition, not said to happenpast · perfectprincea wifevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic

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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