The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 130

Now, as soon as the Prince had got rid of the witch’s daughter he greeted the cinder wench as his bride, and they wandered together to the birch tree which grew upon the mother’s grave.

Who acts: Prince, preparations, birch tree · What happens: get, greet, wander, grow · To what, where: cinder wench, birch tree, grave

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, preparations, birch tree), 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	9 got	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 got	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 daughter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 witch	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rid	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 greeted	nsubj
17	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 daughter	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wench	det
19	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wench	compound
20	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 greeted	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 bride	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bride	nmod:poss
23	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wench	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wandered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wandered	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wandered	nsubj
27	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 wandered	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 tree	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
31	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tree	compound
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wandered	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 grew	nsubj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tree	acl:relcl
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 grave	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mother	det
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 grave	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 mother	case
39	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grew	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	the Prince			now	rid, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	greet speech: greet	past	Prince	the cinder wench			as Prince's bride	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wench=Theme as bride=Attribute
3	wander	past	preparations = preparation		the birch tree		together property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination
4	grow	past	the birch tree		the mother's grave			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grave=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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