The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 110
The princess’s body was lain the same day in a plain wooden chest, and set in the chapel of the castle, and on that night and every night after it, a sentinel was posted in the church, to keep watch over the chest.
What happens: lie, set, post, keep · To what, where: body, plain wooden chest, chapel, sentinel, church, watch
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 princess | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lain | aux:pass |
| 6 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lain | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chest | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chest | det |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chest | amod |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chest | amod |
| 14 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lain | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lain | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 chapel | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chapel | det |
| 20 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chapel | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 posted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 posted | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 night | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 posted | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 night | cc |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 night | det |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 night | conj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 night | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 night | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sentinel | det |
| 36 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 posted | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 posted | aux:pass |
| 38 | posted | post | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lain | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 church | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 church | det |
| 41 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 posted | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 keep | punct |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 keep | mark |
| 44 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 posted | advcl |
| 45 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 keep | obj |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 chest | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 chest | det |
| 48 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 keep | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · passive | the princess's body | a plain wooden chest | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | participle | the chapel of the castle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chapel=Destination | |||||
| 3 | post | past · passive | a sentinel | the church | night | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | watch | the chest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over chest=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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