The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 79

The others resumed their proper shapes and continued their journey, but the princess was so silent that at last the prince asked her what was the matter.

Who acts: others, princess, last prince, feelings · What happens: resume, continue, be, ask, journey · To what, where: proper shapes, journey, princess, matter · 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 (others, princess, last prince, feelings), 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 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 resumed	nsubj
3	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shapes	nmod:poss
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shapes	amod
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 resumed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 continued	cc
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resumed	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 journey	nmod:poss
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 silent	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 silent	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 silent	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 silent	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 silent	advmod
17	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 resumed	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 asked	mark
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prince	amod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 silent	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 matter	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 matter	det
28	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	resume	past	the others	feelings's proper shapes			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality
2	continue	past	the others not said here	feelings's journey			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
3	is	past	the princess			silent property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	the last prince		princess		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is a	past		the matter			tree rules
6	journey		feelings = feeling				nom journey «act 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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