The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 113
The prince obeyed, had his horses harnessed to his gilded chariot, and set out to woo his bride.
Who acts: prince, horses · What happens: obey, have, harness, gild, set out, woo · To what, where: bride
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, horses), 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 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 harnessed | nsubj |
| 8 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chariot | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 chariot | amod |
| 12 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harnessed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obeyed | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 woo | mark |
| 18 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 set | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bride | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 woo | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the prince | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | harness | past | prince's horses | to prince's gilded chariot | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to chariot=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | set out | infinitive | the prince not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | woo | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | prince's bride | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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