The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 23
Then the prince and his step-sister entered the castle and took up their abode in it.
Who acts: prince · What happens: enter, take up · To what, where: castle, abode
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 (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sister | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sister | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 step | punct |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 abode | nmod:poss |
| 16 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the prince and fox's step sister | the castle | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination | |||
| 2 | take up | past | the prince and fox's step sister not said here | princes's abode | abode | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in it=Location |
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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