The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 63
The Prince was very angry at this speech, and commanded his officers to make Celia a prisoner and carry her off to his palace.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, command, make, carry off · To what, where: speech, officers, Celia, palace · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 speech | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 speech | det |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 commanded | cc |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 officers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 commanded | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 commanded | advcl |
| 16 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 prisoner | det |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carry | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | this speech | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | command | past | the Prince not said here | prince's officers | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent officer=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | Celia | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset celia=Product | ||||
| 4 | carry off | infinitive | the Prince not said here | Celia | prince's palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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