The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 47
As soon as the head-gardener saw the Prince going towards the palace he ran to the trees, and when he saw them laden with ripe fruit he hastened to tell the King the joyful news.
Who acts: Prince, trees · What happens: see, go, run, lade, hasten, tell · To what, where: Prince, palace, trees, ripe fruit, joyful news, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, trees), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gardener | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 head | punct |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 palace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 saw | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | obj |
| 26 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 saw | xcomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 fruit | case |
| 28 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fruit | amod |
| 29 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laden | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hastened | nsubj |
| 31 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 tell | mark |
| 33 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hastened | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 tell | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 news | det |
| 37 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 news | amod |
| 38 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tell | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Prince | as the head gardener; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the Prince not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Prince | the palace not said here | the trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent palace=Theme to tree=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | see | past | Prince | trees = tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lade | participle | trees = tree not said here | with ripe fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hasten | past | Prince | ripe fruit not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the joyful news | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient news=Topic |
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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