The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 77
So they killed the prince, and left him dead on the roadside.
Who acts: coachman · What happens: kill, leave · To what, where: prince, dragon, roadside
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 (coachman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 killed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | obj |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 left | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roadside | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roadside | det |
| 13 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | coachman | the prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | coachman not said here | dragon | the roadside | dead property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on roadside=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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