The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 121
Some days passed, and at last he had to take his bride home to the palace, and he got ready to do so.
Who acts: days, Prince · What happens: pass, have, take, get, do · To what, where: last, bride, 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 (days, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bride | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 got | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | some days | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Prince | last | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's bride | the palace | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 4 | get | past | Prince | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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