The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 157
The Prince and his bride set free all the Christian folk who were imprisoned there, and took away with them all the gold and silver that they could carry, and moved far away from the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
Who acts: Prince, hag, castle · What happens: set, imprison, take away, carry, move, lie · To what, where: Christian folk, gold, castle
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 (Prince, hag, castle), 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 | 6 set | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bride | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | conj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 folk | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 folk | det |
| 10 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 folk | amod |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 14 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 folk | acl:relcl |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 imprisoned | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 gold | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gold | det |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 silver | cc |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gold | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 carry | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 carry | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 carry | aux |
| 30 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 took | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 moved | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 moved | cc |
| 33 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 away | advmod |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 moved | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 castle | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 castle | det |
| 38 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 moved | obl |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 lay | nsubj |
| 40 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 castle | acl:relcl |
| 41 | east | east | ADV | _ | 40 lay | advmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sun | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sun | det |
| 44 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 east | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 west | cc |
| 46 | west | west | ADV | _ | 41 east | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 moon | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 moon | det |
| 49 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 west | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the Prince and prince's bride | all Christian folk | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient folk=Result | |||
| 2 | imprison | past · passive | all Christian folk | there | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take away | past | the Prince and prince's bride not said here | all gold and silver | with hag; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | could | hag | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | move | past | the Prince and prince's bride not said here | the castle | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from castle=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | lie | past | the castle | east property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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