The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 120
So the Princess got the golden apple, but when the girl went up to the Prince’s apartment that night he was asleep, for the Princess had so contrived it.
Who acts: Princess, girl, prince · What happens: get, go up, be, contrive · To what, where: golden apple, apple
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, girl, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apple | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apple | amod |
| 7 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asleep | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 asleep | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 went | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 asleep | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 apartment | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Prince | case |
| 19 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asleep | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 asleep | cop |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 contrived | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 contrived | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 contrived | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 contrived | aux |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 contrived | advmod |
| 31 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 contrived | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Princess | the golden apple | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | the girl | night | to the Prince's apartment | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | past | prince | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | contrive | past · perfect | the Princess | apple | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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