The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 8

The prince agreed to those terms, played, and lost; so the stranger took rooms for him, and furnished him with bread and water every day for three years.

Who acts: prince, stranger · What happens: agree, play, lose, take, furnish · To what, where: rooms, prince

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, stranger), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 terms	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 terms	det
6	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agreed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 played	punct
8	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 played	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
17	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 took	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 furnished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 furnished	cc
22	furnished	furnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 furnished	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 bread	case
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 furnished	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 water	cc
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bread	conj
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 furnished	obl:unmarked
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 years	case
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 furnished	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the prince				to that terms	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	past						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	the stranger	rooms			for prince	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Theme for he=Beneficiary
5	furnish	past	the stranger not said here		prince	day; year	with bread and water	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with bread=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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