The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 117
The Prince arose, went out of the city into the fields, took out of his pocket the eggs which the maidens had given him, and, as they had taught him, turned them into three palaces.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: arise, go out, take out, give, teach, turn · To what, where: city, fields, pocket, maidens, Prince, three palaces
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. 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 | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 fields | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fields | det |
| 12 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj | ||
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eggs | det |
| 20 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pocket | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 given | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maidens | det |
| 23 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 given | aux |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 eggs | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 given | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 taught | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 taught | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 and | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 taught | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taught | aux |
| 33 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 took | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 taught | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 turned | punct |
| 36 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 turned | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 palaces | case |
| 39 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 palaces | nummod |
| 40 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 turned | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | the Prince not said here | the city | the fields | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take out | past | Prince's pocket | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | the maidens | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | maidens = maiden | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 6 | turn | past | maidens = maiden | three palaces | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into palace=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/13/117/