The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 65
And when the prince heard, he swore they should never leave them, but should go with the princess wherever she went.
Who acts: prince, Gon, princes, Princess · What happens: hear, swear, not leave, go · To what, where: Heart
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (prince, Gon, princes, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:63): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swore | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swore | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swore | nsubj |
| 8 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 leave | advmod |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swore | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 leave | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 went | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | swear | past | Gon | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not leave | should | princes = prince | Heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | should | princes = prince not said here | with the princess | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with princess=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Princess | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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