The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 78
Thereupon the King and the Prince made great friends with him, and they all walked arm-in-arm and dined together, and afterwards the cockchafer showed them all the curiosities of his strange country, where the tiniest green leaf costs a gold piece and more.
Who acts: King, cockchafer, tiniest green leaf · What happens: make, walk, dine, show, cost · To what, where: great friends, arm, King, gold piece
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, cockchafer, tiniest green leaf), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Prince | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friends | amod |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 walked | advmod |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walked | obj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 arm | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 arm | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arm | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dined | cc |
| 23 | dined | dine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 walked | conj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 dined | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 showed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 showed | cc |
| 27 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 30 showed | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cockchafer | det |
| 29 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 showed | nsubj |
| 30 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 showed | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 curiosities | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 curiosities | det |
| 34 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 showed | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 country | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 country | nmod:poss |
| 37 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 country | amod |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 curiosities | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 costs | punct |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 costs | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 leaf | det |
| 42 | tiniest | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 leaf | amod |
| 43 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 leaf | amod |
| 44 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 costs | nsubj |
| 45 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 curiosities | acl:relcl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 piece | det |
| 47 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 piece | compound |
| 48 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 costs | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 more | cc |
| 50 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 48 piece | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the King and the Prince | great friends | with Prince; thereupon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | |||
| 2 | walk | past | King | arm and arm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme arm=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | dine | participle | King not said here | together property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | past | the cockchafer | King | afterwards property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient curiosity=Topic | |||
| 5 | cost | present | the tiniest green leaf | a gold piece | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme piece=Value |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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