The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 1
The prince was now in the witch’s power, and in her service.
Who acts: prince, her · What happens: be, service · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, her), 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 | 9 power | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 power | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 power | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 power | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 power | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 service | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 service | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 service | nmod:poss |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 power | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | the witch's power and her service | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | service | her = she | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/26/1/