The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 35

By this time it had grown dark, and the Prince had to go back to his own room, and to amuse himself he took up a quaint old book and began to look at the pictures.

Who acts: figure, Prince · What happens: grow, have, go back, amuse, take up, begin · To what, where: prince, quaint old book

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grown	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grown	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grown	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 room	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 room	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 room	amod
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 amuse	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 amuse	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 amuse	mark
23	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 amuse	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 amuse	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 took	compound:prt
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 book	det
29	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 book	amod
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 book	amod
31	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 began	cc
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 look	mark
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 pictures	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pictures	det
38	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	figure		time	dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the Prince				tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here			to prince's own room result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result
4	amuse	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	prince			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
5	take up	past	prince	a quaint old book			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
6	begin	past	prince not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	look	to-infinitive	prince not said here			at the pictures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=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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