The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 117

It became now a general belief that the princess’s ghost walked, and ate up all those who were to guard her chest, and very soon there was no one left who would be placed on this duty, and the king’s soldiers deserted the service, before their turn came to be her bodyguard.

Who acts: Chest, ghost, one, soldiers, turn, princess · What happens: become, walk, eat up, guard, be, leave · To what, where: general belief, those, chest, one, duty, service

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: who acts (Chest, ghost, one, soldiers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 became	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 belief	det
5	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 belief	amod
6	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 walked	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ghost	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 princess	case
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	nsubj
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 belief	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 ate	compound:prt
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 those	det:predet
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 ate	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 guard	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 guard	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	22 guard	mark
22	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 those	acl:relcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 chest	nmod:poss
24	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guard	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 deserted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 deserted	cc
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 soon	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 deserted	advmod
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 soon	advcl
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 was	nsubj
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 one	acl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 placed	nsubj:pass
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 placed	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 placed	aux:pass
37	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 left	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 duty	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 duty	det
40	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 placed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 deserted	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 deserted	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 king	det
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 soldiers	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 king	case
46	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 deserted	nsubj
47	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 service	det
49	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 deserted	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 came	punct
51	before	before	SCONJ	_	54 came	mark
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 turn	nmod:poss
53	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 came	nsubj
54	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 deserted	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	58 bodyguard	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 bodyguard	cop
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 bodyguard	nmod:poss
58	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 came	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Chest	a general belief		now		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	walk	past	the princess's ghost	a general belief not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme belief=Trajectory
3	eat up	past	Chest not said here	those				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	guard	past	Chest not said here	Princess's chest				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Beneficiary
5	be	past	no one		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	participle		no one not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	place	would · passive			this duty			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on duty=Destination
8	desert	past	the king's soldiers	the service			soon property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme service=Source
9	come	past	king's turn					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is a	to-infinitive	king's turn not said here	Princess's bodyguard				tree rules
11	ghost		the princess					nom ghost «cognition 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.

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