The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 101

As they approached the town he saw that some great rejoicing was being held, and when the hunters asked what had happened they were told that the Prince, whose only pleasure it was to torment his people, had been found in his room, killed by a thunder-bolt (for that was what was supposed to have become of him).

Who acts: faults, prince, hunters, rejoicing · What happens: approach, see, hold, ask, happen, tell · To what, where: town, great rejoicing, faults, room, thunder bolt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faults, prince, hunters, rejoicing), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 approached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 held	mark
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 rejoicing	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rejoicing	amod
11	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 held	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 held	aux:pass
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saw	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 asked	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hunters	det
19	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 happened	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 happened	aux
23	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 asked	ccomp
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	aux:pass
26	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 happened	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 pleasure	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 pleasure	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pleasure	punct
31	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	33 pleasure	nmod:poss
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 pleasure	advmod
33	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 torment	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 torment	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 torment	cop
36	to	to	PART	_	37 torment	mark
37	torment	torment	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 told	ccomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 people	nmod:poss
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 torment	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 found	punct
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 found	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 found	aux:pass
43	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 saw	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 room	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 room	nmod:poss
46	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 found	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 killed	punct
48	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 found	conj
49	by	by	ADP	_	53 bolt	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 bolt	det
51	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bolt	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 thunder	punct
53	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 killed	obl
54	(	(	PUNCT	_	60 supposed	punct
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 that	case
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 supposed	obl
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 supposed	aux
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 supposed	nsubj:pass
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 supposed	aux:pass
60	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 bolt	acl:relcl
61	to	to	PART	_	63 become	mark
62	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 become	aux
63	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	60 supposed	xcomp
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 him	case
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 become	obl
66	)	)	PUNCT	_	60 supposed	punct
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	faults = fault	the town			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2	see	past	prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hold	past · passive		some great rejoicing			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the hunters				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past · passive		faults = fault			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	pleasure	infinitive	the Prince				tree rules
8	is not said to happen	past	rejoicing			torment property	tree rules
9	find	past · perfect · passive	prince not said here		prince's room		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
10	kill	participle	prince not said here			by a thunder bolt	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	suppose	past · passive		a thunder bolt		for a thunder bolt	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
12	become	to-infinitive · perfect				of prince	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 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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