The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 39
He got the grains of gold and entered the castle, where he carried off the princess, set her on the beautiful horse, and held on his way.
Who acts: prince · What happens: get, enter, carry off, set, hold · To what, where: grains, castle, princess, way
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grains | det |
| 4 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grains | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 entered | cc |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 carried | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 castle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 horse | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 held | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 held | cc |
| 27 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 held | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | prince | the grains of gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | prince not said here | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | prince | the princess | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set | past | prince not said here | princess | on the beautiful horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 5 | hold | participle | prince not said here | prince's way | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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