The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 80
Then the princess told the king how treacherously his eldest sons had acted, and he had them banished from his kingdom; but the youngest prince married the princess, and got the horse with the golden shoes and half the kingdom from his father, who kept for himself so long as he lived the bird Grip, which now sang with all its heart to the king and all his court.
Who acts: princess, eldest sons, son, eyes, youngest prince, father · What happens: tell, act, have, banish, marry, get · To what, where: king, eyes, kingdom, princess, horse, bird Grip · 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 (princess, eldest sons, son, eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 acted | advmod |
| 8 | treacherously | treacherously | ADV | _ | 13 acted | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 sons | amod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 acted | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 acted | aux |
| 13 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 banished | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 married | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 married | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 26 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 prince | amod |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | nsubj |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 got | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 got | cc |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 horse | det |
| 35 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 shoes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 shoes | det |
| 38 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 shoes | amod |
| 39 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 got | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 kingdom | cc |
| 41 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 43 kingdom | det:predet |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 kingdom | det |
| 43 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shoes | conj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 father | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 father | nmod:poss |
| 46 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 kept | punct |
| 48 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 kept | nsubj |
| 49 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 father | acl:relcl |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 himself | case |
| 51 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 49 kept | obl |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 53 long | advmod |
| 53 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 kept | advmod |
| 54 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 56 lived | mark |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 lived | nsubj |
| 56 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 long | advcl |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 Grip | det |
| 58 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 Grip | compound |
| 59 | Grip | Grip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 lived | obj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 sang | punct |
| 61 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 63 sang | nsubj |
| 62 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 63 sang | advmod |
| 63 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 Grip | acl:relcl |
| 64 | with | with | ADP | _ | 67 heart | case |
| 65 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 67 heart | det:predet |
| 66 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 heart | nmod:poss |
| 67 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 sang | obl |
| 68 | to | to | ADP | _ | 70 king | case |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 king | det |
| 70 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 sang | obl |
| 71 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 court | cc |
| 72 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 74 court | det:predet |
| 73 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 74 court | nmod:poss |
| 74 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 king | conj |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the princess | the king | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | act | past · perfect | king's eldest sons | treacherously property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | son | eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | banish | participle | eyes = eye not said here | king's kingdom | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from kingdom=Source | ||||
| 5 | marry | past | the youngest prince | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 6 | get | past | the princess not said here | the horse | with the golden shoes and half kingdom; from king's father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from father=Source | |||
| 7 | keep | past | king's father | for king; long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | live | past | king | the bird Grip | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grip=Location | ||||
| 9 | sing speech: express | past | the bird Grip | now | with kingdom's heart; to the king and king's court | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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