The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 6
Cards were brought, and in a very short time the prince had lost every penny he possessed to his new acquaintance.
Who acts: man · What happens: bring, lose, possess, acquaint · To what, where: Cards, prince, penny
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 (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 | Cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 short | advmod |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 penny | det |
| 16 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 possessed | nsubj |
| 18 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 penny | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 acquaintance | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 acquaintance | amod |
| 22 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possessed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Cards | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the prince | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | possess | past | man | every penny not said here | to man's new acquaintance | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot penny=Theme | |||
| 4 | acquaint | man | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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