The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 107
But the princess knew that he was not her husband, and she begged him to go out into the woods with his beasts, and to look for his brother till he found him.
Who acts: princess, fox · What happens: know, not be, beg, go out, look, find · To what, where: husband, fox, woods · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, fox), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 husband | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 husband | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 husband | advmod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 begged | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | nsubj |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begged | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 woods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woods | det |
| 21 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 beasts | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 look | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 brother | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 found | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | fox | princess's husband | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | princess | fox | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the woods | with fox's beasts; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beast=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | for fox's brother | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for brother=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past | fox | husband | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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