The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 120
The Prince had to take the witch’s daughter for his bride whether he would or no; he sneaked away to her father’s house with her, however, for he was ashamed to hold the wedding festivities at the palace with so strange a bride.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, take, sneak away, be, hold · To what, where: daughter, house, wedding festivities, palace
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 (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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 bride | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bride | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 would | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 would | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | advcl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 no | cc |
| 17 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 would | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sneaked | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sneaked | nsubj |
| 20 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 sneaked | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 father | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sneaked | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sneaked | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 however | punct |
| 30 | however | however | ADV | _ | 35 ashamed | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 however | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 ashamed | case |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ashamed | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ashamed | cop |
| 35 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sneaked | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hold | mark |
| 37 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 ashamed | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 festivities | det |
| 39 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 festivities | compound |
| 40 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 hold | obj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 palace | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 palace | det |
| 43 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hold | obl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 bride | case |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 strange | advmod |
| 46 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 bride | amod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 bride | det |
| 48 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hold | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | the witch's daughter | for Prince's bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for bride=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | sneak away | past | Prince | witch's father's house | with witch; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | Prince | ashamed, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hold | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the wedding festivities | the palace | with a strange bride | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent festivity=Theme at palace=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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