The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 64
Well, after this they drank, and enjoyed themselves, and held sweet converse together, and then the Prince took leave of her, and went on to the second sister, the one who lived in the silver palace, and with her also he stayed awhile.
Who acts: wounds, Prince, one · What happens: drink, enjoy, hold, take, go on, live · To what, where: wounds, leave, silver palace
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 (wounds, Prince, one), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 drank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 drank | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drank | nsubj |
| 6 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoyed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 enjoyed | cc |
| 9 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drank | conj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 enjoyed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drank | conj |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 converse | amod |
| 15 | converse | converse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 held | xcomp |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 converse | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 took | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drank | conj |
| 23 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 sister | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sister | det |
| 32 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 sister | amod |
| 33 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 one | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sister | appos |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 lived | nsubj |
| 38 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 one | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 palace | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 palace | det |
| 41 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 palace | compound |
| 42 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lived | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 stayed | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 stayed | cc |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 stayed | obl |
| 47 | also | also | ADV | _ | 49 stayed | advmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 stayed | nsubj |
| 49 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 50 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 49 stayed | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | wounds = wound | after this | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | past | wounds = wound not said here | wounds = wound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | wounds = wound not said here | converse property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the Prince | leave of sister | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 5 | go on | past | the Prince not said here | to the second sister | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | past | the one | the silver palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 7 | stay | past | Prince | with sister; awhile property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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