The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 83
The Prince, in great anger, sent his foster-brother with a number of soldiers to bring his tutor before him, in chains, like a criminal.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: send, bring · To what, where: foster brother, tutor, chains
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 | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 anger | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 anger | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anger | amod |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 foster | punct |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 number | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 soldiers | case |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tutor | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 chains | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 chains | case |
| 26 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bring | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 criminal | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 criminal | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 criminal | det |
| 30 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chains | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Prince | prince's foster brother | with a number of soldiers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | brother's tutor | chains and a criminal | before brother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tutor=Theme before he=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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