The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 9
The prince lamented his lot, but it was no use; and at the end of three years he was released and had to go to the house of the stranger, who was really the king of a neighbouring country, and be his servant.
Who acts: prince, lot, stranger · What happens: lament, be, release, have, go, neighbour · To what, where: lot, use, prince, end, house, king
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, lot, 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 lamented | nsubj |
| 3 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lamented | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 use | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 use | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 use | det |
| 11 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lamented | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 released | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 released | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 released | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 released | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 released | aux:pass |
| 22 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lamented | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 released | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 stranger | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 stranger | det |
| 32 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 house | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 king | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 king | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 king | cop |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 38 king | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stranger | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 country | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 country | det |
| 41 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 country | amod |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 king | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 servant | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 servant | cc |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 servant | cop |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 servant | nmod:poss |
| 47 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | past | the prince | prince's lot | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | lot | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | release | past · passive | prince | at the end of three years | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | the house of the stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the stranger | the king | of a neighbouring country | tree rules | |||
| 7 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is a | infinitive | prince's servant | tree rules |
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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