The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 72
After killing the beast, the Prince went back again, picking up all the three sisters by the way, with the intention of taking them out into the upper world: for they all loved him and would not be separated from him.
Who acts: Prince, intention, things · What happens: kill, go back, pick up, take out, love, not separate · To what, where: beast, three sisters, things, upper world, Prince
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, intention, things), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 killing | mark |
| 2 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 killing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 killing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picking | punct |
| 12 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picking | compound:prt |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sisters | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sisters | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sisters | nummod |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 picking | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 intention | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 intention | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 intention | det |
| 24 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picking | obl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 taking | mark |
| 26 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 intention | acl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 taking | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 taking | compound:prt |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 31 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 world | amod |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taking | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 loved | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 loved | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 loved | nsubj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 loved | advmod |
| 37 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 loved | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 separated | cc |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 separated | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 separated | advmod |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 separated | aux:pass |
| 43 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 loved | conj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 separated | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | the Prince not said here | the beast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | the Prince | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pick up | gerund | the Prince not said here | all three sisters | by the way; with the intention | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Topic | |||
| 4 | take out | gerund | the intention not said here | things = thing | the upper world | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | past | things = thing | Prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not separate | would · passive | things = thing not said here | from Prince | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from he=Co-Patient |
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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