The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 28
On hearing the proclamation a number of princes arrived at the castle to try their luck.
What happens: hear, arrive, try · To what, where: proclamation, princes, castle, luck
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 proclamation | det |
| 4 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 princes | case |
| 8 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 princes | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arrived | advcl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 luck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 try | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the proclamation | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | arrive | participle | princes not said here | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | princesses's luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
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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