The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 28
When they had spent three days together, chatting and caressing one another, the herd came back to the king, and demanded his lamb.
Who acts: wings, herd · What happens: spend, chat, caress, come back, demand · To what, where: one, lamb
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, herd), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 spent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chatting | punct |
| 9 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spent | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caressing | cc |
| 11 | caressing | caress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 chatting | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 caressing | obj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | fixed |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 herd | det |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chatting | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 demanded | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 demanded | cc |
| 24 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 demanded | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect | wings = wing | day | together property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | chat speech: other | gerund | wings = wing not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | caress | gerund | wings = wing not said here | one | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come back | past | the herd | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | demand speech: request | past | the herd not said here | king's lamb | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamb=Precondition |
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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