The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 105
Now the Prince had kept all the things the girl had lost, and he soon set about finding the owner of them.
Who acts: things, Prince · What happens: keep, lose, set, find · To what, where: Prince, girl, owner
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 set | advmod |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 18 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 19 finding | mark |
| 19 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 set | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 owner | det |
| 21 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finding | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 owner | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the Prince | now | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme thing=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | all things not said here | the girl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | set | present | Prince | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | Prince not said here | the owner of slippers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic |
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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