The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 7
Soon after they came on a lioness with three cubs.
Who acts: princes · What happens: come · To what, where: lioness
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 (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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lioness | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lioness | det |
| 7 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cubs | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cubs | nummod |
| 10 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princes = prince | a lioness | with three cubs; soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lioness=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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