The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 24
So the Prince married her, for now he knew that at last he had got hold of a true Princess.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: marry, know, get, hold · To what, where: Princess, hold, last, true Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 knew | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Princess | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Princess | amod |
| 21 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the Prince | Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Prince | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | Prince | hold of a true Princess | last | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hold=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 4 | hold | a true Princess | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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