The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 106
Six months went by, and then came the joyful news that the king’s son had collected an army and had defeated the usurper who had taken his father’s place, but at the same moment Dotterine learned that the old king had died in captivity.
Who acts: Six months, usurper, Dotterine, old king · What happens: go by, come, collect, defeat, take, learn · To what, where: joyful news, son, usurper, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six months, usurper, Dotterine, old 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 news | det |
| 10 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 news | amod |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 collected | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 collected | aux |
| 18 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | advcl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 army | det |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collected | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 defeated | cc |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 defeated | aux |
| 23 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 collected | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 usurper | det |
| 25 | usurper | usurper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 defeated | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 taken | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 taken | aux |
| 28 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 usurper | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 place | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 father | case |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taken | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 learned | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 learned | cc |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 moment | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 moment | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 moment | amod |
| 38 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 learned | obl |
| 39 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 learned | nsubj |
| 40 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 died | mark |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 king | det |
| 43 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 king | amod |
| 44 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 died | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 died | aux |
| 46 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 learned | ccomp |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 captivity | case |
| 48 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 died | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | Six months | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Six months not said here | the joyful news | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | |||
| 3 | collect | past · perfect · passive | the king's son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | defeat | past · perfect | the usurper | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | the usurper | army's father's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 6 | learn | past | Dotterine | moment | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | die | past · perfect | the old king | in captivity | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in captivity=Attribute |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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