The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 121
When he entered the town, all the people thought it was their own prince come back to them, and they gathered round him, as they had gathered round his youngest brother, and asked him where he had been and why he had not returned.
Who acts: master, people, town, princes · What happens: enter, think, be, gather, ask, not return · To what, where: town, people, princes, master · 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 (master, people, town, princes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | cop |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prince | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gathered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gathered | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gathered | nsubj |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | conj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gathered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gathered | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 gathered | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gathered | aux |
| 30 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gathered | conj |
| 31 | round | round | ADP | _ | 34 brother | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 brother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 brother | amod |
| 34 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gathered | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 asked | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 asked | cc |
| 37 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | parataxis |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 asked | iobj |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 been | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 been | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 been | aux |
| 42 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 asked | ccomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 returned | cc |
| 44 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 returned | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 returned | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 returned | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 returned | advmod |
| 48 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 been | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | master | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | all people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | town | people | come property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | gather | past | princes = prince | round master | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gather | past · perfect · passive | princes = prince | round master's youngest brother | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | master | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | be | past · perfect | master | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not return | past · perfect | master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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