The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 69
The Prince of the Air returned a few days later from his mother’s palace, but the Invisible Prince had already set out.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: return, set out · To what, where: Invisible Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Air | det |
| 5 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | nmod |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 later | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 returned | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 later | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 19 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Prince | compound |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 set | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 set | advmod |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Prince of the Air | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past · perfect · passive | the Invisible Prince | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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/pg640/16/69/