The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 40
Another moment and it had vanished completely, and the prince took the ring and made his way back to the palace.
Who acts: prince · What happens: vanish, take, make back · To what, where: moment, ring, way
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 (prince), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vanished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 it | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moment | conj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vanished | aux |
| 6 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 vanished | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vanished | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect · passive | another moment | completely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the prince | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make back | past | the prince not said here | prince's way | to the palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=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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