The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 102

Four of his courtiers, those who had encouraged him in his wicked doings, had tried to seize the kingdom and divide it between them, but the people, who knew it was their bad counsels which had so changed the Prince, had cut off their heads, and had offered the crown to Suliman, whom the Prince had left in prison.

Who acts: people, town, Prince · What happens: encourage, try, seize, divide, know, be · To what, where: prince, wicked doings, kingdom, town, bad counsels, heads

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 (people, town, 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	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 courtiers	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 courtiers	nmod:poss
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Four	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 those	punct
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 courtiers	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 encouraged	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 encouraged	aux
9	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 those	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 encouraged	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 doings	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 doings	nmod:poss
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 doings	amod
14	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 encouraged	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tried	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tried	aux
17	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 those	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 seize	mark
19	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tried	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kingdom	det
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seize	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 divide	cc
23	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 seize	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 divide	obj
25	between	between	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 divide	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knew	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 knew	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 knew	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knew	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 knew	nsubj
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 those	acl:relcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 counsels	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 counsels	cop
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 counsels	nmod:poss
37	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 counsels	amod
38	counsels	counsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 knew	obj
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 changed	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 changed	aux
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 changed	advmod
42	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 counsels	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Prince	det
44	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 changed	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cut	punct
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 cut	aux
47	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 counsels	parataxis
48	off	off	ADP	_	50 heads	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 heads	nmod:poss
50	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 cut	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 offered	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 offered	cc
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 offered	aux
54	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 cut	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 crown	det
56	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 offered	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 Suliman	case
58	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 offered	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 left	punct
60	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 left	obl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Prince	det
62	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 left	nsubj
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 left	aux
64	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 counsels	parataxis
65	in	in	ADP	_	66 prison	case
66	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 left	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Four	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	encourage	past · perfect		prince		prince's wicked doings		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	try	past · perfect						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive		the kingdom				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
4	divide	present		town			between faults = fault	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	know	past	the people					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	town	faults's bad counsels				tree rules
7	change	past · perfect · passive		faults's bad counsels				tree rules
8	cut off	past · perfect		faults's heads				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
9	offer	past · perfect		the crown	Suliman			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to suliman=Goal
10	leave	past · perfect	the Prince	faults's bad counsels			in prison result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in prison=Result

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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