The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 6
The baby was a boy, and the King took him at once and brought him up as his own son until the lad grew up.
Who acts: baby, King, lad · What happens: be, take, bring up, grow up · To what, where: boy, baby
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, King, lad), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 took | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 brought | compound:prt |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 son | amod |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 grew | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lad | det |
| 24 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grew | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the baby | a boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the King | baby | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 3 | bring up | past | the King not said here | baby | as King's own son | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | grow up | past | the lad | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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