The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 1

There was once a king who had only one son, and this young man tormented his father from morning till night to allow him to travel in far countries.

Who acts: king, young man · What happens: be, have, torment, allow, travel · To what, where: one son, father, man, far countries

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, young man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 king	acl:relcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 son	nummod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tormented	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tormented	cc
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tormented	nsubj
16	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tormented	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 morning	case
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tormented	obl
21	till	till	ADP	_	22 night	case
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tormented	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 allow	mark
24	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tormented	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 allow	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 travel	mark
27	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 allow	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 countries	case
29	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 countries	amod
30	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 travel	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a king			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a king	one son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	torment	past	this young man	man's father			morning; night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
4	allow	to-infinitive	this young man not said here		man				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	travel not said to happen	to-infinitive	this young man not said here			far countries			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory

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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