The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 121
In the morning the King and the Queen saw plainly where their daughter had been, and they took the Soldier and put him into prison.
Who acts: King, daughter, Princess · What happens: see, be, take, put · To what, where: Soldier, prison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, daughter, Princess), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Queen | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 been | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 been | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 been | aux |
| 15 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Soldier | det |
| 21 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 took | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 prison | case |
| 26 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King and the Queen | morning | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | be | past · perfect | Princess's daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Princess | the Soldier | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument soldier=Destination | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Princess not said here | soldier | prison | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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/pg640/46/121/