The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 28
The Prince was deeply moved, and vowed that he would search the world for the Princess, and take no rest till he had found and restored her to her mother’s arms.
Who acts: King · What happens: move, vow, search, take, find, restore · To what, where: Prince, world, rest, Queen, arms
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vowed | cc |
| 8 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 search | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 search | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 search | aux |
| 12 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vowed | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 search | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 search | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 search | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 found | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 take | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 restored | cc |
| 28 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vowed | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 restored | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 arms | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 arms | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 34 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 restored | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the Prince | deeply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | vow | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | search | would | King | the world | for the Princess | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location for princess=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | King not said here | no rest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | restore | past | Queen | Queen's mother's arms | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to arm=Recipient |
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.
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