The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 43
The prince and princess travelled on together with mirth and happiness, and the fox followed them until they came to the forest where the prince first met with him.
Who acts: prince, fox, mirth · What happens: travel, follow, come, meet · To what, where: mirth, forest
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, fox, mirth), 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 | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 princess | cc |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 together | case |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 travelled | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mirth | case |
| 9 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happiness | cc |
| 11 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mirth | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 followed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelled | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 followed | obj |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 followed | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 met | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 met | nsubj |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 met | advmod |
| 28 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 forest | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 met | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | the prince and princess | with mirth and happiness | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on together=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the fox | mirth | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | mirth | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | the prince | with fox; first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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