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The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 112

The princes thought a moment: then they went back the way they had come, and walked straight up to the emperor, their caps still on their heads.

Who acts: princes · What happens: think, go back, come, walk · To what, where: way, caps

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes), 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

detnsubjdetobjpunctadvmodnsubjconjadvmoddetoblnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccconjadvmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctnmod:possobladvmodcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootTheDETprincesNOUNthoughtVERBaDETmomentNOUN:PUNCTthenADVtheyPRONwentVERBbackADVtheDETwayNOUNtheyPRONhadAUXcomeVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwalkedVERBstraightADVupADVtoADPtheDETemperorNOUN,PUNCTtheirPRONcapsNOUNstillADVonADPtheirPRONheadsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 princesdet
2princesprinceNOUNNumber=Plur3 thoughtnsubj
3thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 momentdet
5momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing3 thoughtobj
6::PUNCT_9 wentpunct
7thenthenADVPronType=Dem9 wentadvmod
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 wentnsubj
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 thoughtconj
10backbackADV_9 wentadvmod
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 waydet
12waywayNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentobl
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 comensubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 comeaux
15comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part12 wayacl:relcl
16,,PUNCT_18 walkedpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 walkedcc
18walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 thoughtconj
19straightstraightADV_20 upadvmod
20upupADV_18 walkedadvmod
21totoADP_23 emperorcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 emperordet
23emperoremperorNOUNNumber=Sing18 walkedobl
24,,PUNCT_26 capspunct
25theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 capsnmod:poss
26capscapNOUNNumber=Plur18 walkedobl
27stillstillADV_30 headsadvmod
28ononADP_30 headscase
29theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 headsnmod:poss
30headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur26 capsnmod
31..PUNCT_3 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastthe princesmomentvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2go backpastprinces = princethe waythenvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3comepast · perfectprinces = princethe way not said herevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4walkpastthe princes not said hereprinces's caps on princes's headsto the emperor resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to emperor=Result

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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