The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 29
Then the king went to his daughter to bring it away, which troubled the princess very much, for she said they had played so nicely together.
Who acts: king, princess, wings · What happens: go, bring away, trouble, say, play · To what, where: head, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, princess, wings), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 troubled | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 troubled | nsubj |
| 14 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 troubled | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 troubled | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 said | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 troubled | conj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 played | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 played | aux |
| 25 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 nicely | advmod |
| 27 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 25 played | advmod |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 played | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the king | then | to king's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to daughter=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bring away | to-infinitive | the king not said here | head | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | trouble | past | the princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | play | past · perfect | wings = wing | nicely, together property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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