The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 4
He married a wife and soon they had a most beautiful daughter, for whom, when she was grown up, he caused a great palace to be built underground, and then killed the architect who had built it.
Who acts: eldest, sons, architect · What happens: marry, have, grow up, cause, build, kill · To what, where: wife, beautiful daughter, great palace, architect
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 (eldest, sons, architect), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whom | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 grown | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grown | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 grown | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grown | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grown | aux:pass |
| 20 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 had | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 grown | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 caused | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 caused | nsubj |
| 24 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 palace | amod |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 built | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 built | aux:pass |
| 30 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 palace | acl |
| 31 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 30 built | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 killed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 killed | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 killed | advmod |
| 35 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caused | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 architect | det |
| 37 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 killed | obj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 built | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 built | aux |
| 40 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 architect | acl:relcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 built | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | eldest = eld | a wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | sons = son | a beautiful daughter | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow up | past · passive | wife | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary whom=Product | |||||
| 4 | cause | past | eldest = eld | a great palace | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition palace=Patient | ||||
| 5 | build | to-infinitive · passive | eldest = eld not said here | a great palace not said here | underground property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | |||
| 6 | kill | past | eldest = eld not said here | the architect | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent architect=Theme | |||
| 7 | build | past · perfect | the architect | architect | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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