The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 21
As soon as his master knew he was there, the young man was sent for into his presence, and three bags were handed to him with these words:
Who acts: master · What happens: know, be, send, hand · To what, where: young man, three bags, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 sent | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 knew | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 there | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | aux:pass |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 presence | case |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 presence | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 presence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 handed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 handed | cc |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 bags | nummod |
| 23 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 handed | aux:pass |
| 25 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sent | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 handed | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 words | case |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 words | det |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 handed | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | prince's master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | master | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | the young man | for prince's presence; soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hand | past · passive | three bags | prince | with this words | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
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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