The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 55

The queen, who was a witch, discovered that her daughter had gone off with the prince, and told her husband he must leave his bed and go after them.

Who acts: queen, daughter, husband · What happens: be, discover, go off, tell, leave, go · To what, where: witch, husband, bed · 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 (queen, daughter, husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 witch	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 witch	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 witch	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 queen	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 queen	punct
9	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 discovered	ccomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 gone	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 prince	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discovered	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	iobj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leave	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 leave	aux
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	ccomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bed	nmod:poss
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 leave	conj
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the queen	a witch				tree rules
2	discover	past	the queen					vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go off	past · perfect	queen's daughter				with the prince	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the queen not said here		daughter's husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
5	leave	must	husband	husband's bed				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
6	go	infinitive	husband not said here			after sisters = sister		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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