The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 90

And at last his memory came back to him, and he declared he would marry the princess and nobody else.

Who acts: last, memory · What happens: come back, declare, marry · To what, where: prince, princess

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 (last, memory), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	nsubj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 memory	nmod:poss
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 declared	nsubj
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 marry	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 marry	aux
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 declared	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 nobody	cc
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 princess	conj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 nobody	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come back	past	last		prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	declare speech: other	past	memory			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	marry	would	memory	the princess		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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