The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 17
Now when the boy had come to his full strength the King of that country fell in love with his mother, and wanted to marry her, but he knew that she would never part from her boy.
Who acts: boy, King, Princess · What happens: come, fall, want, marry, know, not part · To what, where: full strength, love, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, King, Princess), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 strength | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 strength | nmod:poss |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strength | amod |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 strength | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wanted | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wanted | cc |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wanted | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 marry | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knew | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 knew | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knew | nsubj |
| 31 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wanted | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 part | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 part | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 part | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 part | advmod |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knew | ccomp |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 boy | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 boy | nmod:poss |
| 39 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 part | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the boy | boy's full strength | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to strength=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the King of that country | boy's full strength not said here | love | with boy's mother | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient strength=Result | ||
| 3 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 5 | know | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not part | would | Princess | from Princess's boy | 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 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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