The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 21
The prince went into the castle, and did with the grains of gold as the fox had told him, so that sleep fell upon everyone there; but when he had taken the princess into his arms he forgot the fox’s warning, at the sight of her beauty, and kissed her.
Who acts: prince, sleep, fox · What happens: go, do, tell, fall, take, forget · To what, where: castle, fox, prince, everyone, princess, arms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sleep, fox), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 did | cc |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 grains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grains | det |
| 12 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grains | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 told | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 did | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 fell | mark |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 sleep | det |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 everyone | case |
| 27 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 fell | obl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 everyone | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 taken | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 taken | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 taken | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 taken | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 taken | aux |
| 34 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 princess | det |
| 36 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taken | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 arms | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 arms | nmod:poss |
| 39 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 taken | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 forgot | nsubj |
| 41 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 arms | acl:relcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fox | det |
| 43 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 warning | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 fox | case |
| 45 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 forgot | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 sight | punct |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 sight | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sight | det |
| 49 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taken | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 beauty | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 52 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sight | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 kissed | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 kissed | cc |
| 55 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 kissed | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the prince not said here | with the grains of gold | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the fox | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | that sleep | everyone | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon everyone=Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | prince | the princess | prince's arms | at the sight of princess's beauty | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme into arm=Destination | ||
| 6 | forget | past | prince | the fox's warning | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | kiss | past | princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||||
| 8 | warn | the fox | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | sight | princess's beauty | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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