The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 54
By the time he was set free everybody in his native village had found out his wickedness, and they would not let him live there any longer; and as he would not leave off his evil ways he soon went from bad to worse, and came to a miserable end.
Who acts: prince, ashes · What happens: be, find out, not let, live, not leave off, go · To what, where: everybody, wickedness, native village, prince, evil ways, bad
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, ashes), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 everybody | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 everybody | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 everybody | cop |
| 6 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 everybody | amod |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 everybody | amod |
| 8 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 village | nmod:poss |
| 11 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 village | amod |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 found | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 let | advmod |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 everybody | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 live | advmod |
| 27 | any | any | ADV | _ | 28 longer | advmod |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 live | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 leave | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 leave | cc |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 leave | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 leave | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 leave | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 leave | advmod |
| 35 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | parataxis |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 leave | compound:prt |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 ways | nmod:poss |
| 38 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ways | amod |
| 39 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 leave | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | nsubj |
| 41 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 went | advmod |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ways | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 bad | case |
| 44 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 went | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 worse | case |
| 46 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 went | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 came | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 came | cc |
| 49 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 went | conj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 end | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 end | det |
| 52 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 end | amod |
| 53 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 came | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 everybody | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | prince | everybody | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find out | past · perfect | prince's wickedness | prince's native village | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not let | would | ashes = ash | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | infinitive | prince not said here | there | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | not leave off | would | prince | prince's evil ways | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | past | prince | prince's evil ways not said here | bad | to worse; soon property | tree rules | ||
| 7 | come | past | prince not said here | to a miserable end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location |
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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