The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 47

So the prince mounted the colt, and gave him such a beating that when he came to the palace to announce that the animal was now so meek that it could be ridden by the smallest child, he found the king so bruised that he had to be wrapped in cloths dipped in vinegar, the mother was too stiff to move, and several of the daughters’ ribs were broken.

Who acts: prince, animal, smallest child, mother · What happens: mount, give, come, announce, be, ride · To what, where: colt, beating, prince, animal, king, cloths

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, animal, smallest child, mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 mounted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	nsubj
4	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colt	det
6	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 beating	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beating	det
13	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 came	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beating	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 palace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 announce	mark
22	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 meek	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 animal	det
25	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meek	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 meek	cop
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 meek	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 meek	advmod
29	meek	meek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 announce	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 ridden	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ridden	nsubj:pass
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 ridden	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 ridden	aux:pass
34	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 meek	advcl
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 child	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 child	det
37	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 child	amod
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ridden	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 found	nsubj
41	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 king	det
43	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 found	obj
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 bruised	advmod
45	bruised	bruise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 found	advcl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 had	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 had	nsubj
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 bruised	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	51 wrapped	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 wrapped	aux:pass
51	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 had	xcomp
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 cloths	case
53	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 wrapped	obl
54	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 cloths	acl
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 vinegar	case
56	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dipped	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 stiff	punct
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 mother	det
59	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 stiff	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 stiff	cop
61	too	too	ADV	_	62 stiff	advmod
62	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 vinegar	conj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 move	mark
64	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 stiff	xcomp
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 broken	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 broken	cc
67	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 broken	advcl
68	of	of	ADP	_	72 ribs	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 daughters	det
70	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 ribs	nmod:poss
71	’	's	PART	_	70 daughters	case
72	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 several	obl
73	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 broken	aux:pass
74	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mounted	parataxis
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	the prince	the colt					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Patient
2	give	past	the prince not said here	such beating	prince				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient beating=Theme
3	come	past	prince	such beating				to the palace	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
4	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	prince not said here						vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the animal				now	meek property	tree rules
6	ride	could · passive	the smallest child	animal					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location
7	find	past	prince	the king					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic
8	bruise	past	prince not said here						tree rules
9	have	past	prince						tree rules
10	wrap	to-infinitive · passive	prince not said here			cloths			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in cloth=Destination
11	dip	participle		cloths not said here				in vinegar	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in vinegar=Attribute
12	is	past	the mother					stiff property	tree rules
13	move	to-infinitive	the mother not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
14	break	past · passive							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»

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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