The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 94
But when the prince came to the inn and found his brother among his merry companions, he also remained there and forgot both the bird Grip and his blind father.
Who acts: prince · What happens: come, find, remain, forget · To what, where: inn, brother, bird Grip
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 remained | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 remained | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 inn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inn | det |
| 8 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 companions | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 companions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 companions | amod |
| 16 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 remained | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 remained | advmod |
| 20 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 remained | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 forgot | cc |
| 23 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 remained | conj |
| 24 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 27 Grip | cc:preconj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Grip | det |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Grip | compound |
| 27 | Grip | Grip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 forgot | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 father | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 father | amod |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Grip | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the prince | the inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the prince not said here | prince's brother | among prince's merry companions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | |||
| 3 | remain | past | prince | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | prince not said here | the bird Grip and prince's blind father | tree rules |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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