The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 87
And when they reached the king’s palace they found that preparations for a great feast were being made, for the princess was to marry the coachman.
Who acts: wells, princess · What happens: reach, find, make, be · To what, where: palace, preparations · 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 (wells, princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 made | mark |
| 12 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 feast | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feast | amod |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 preparations | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 marry | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 marry | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 coachman | det |
| 28 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marry | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | wells = well | the king's palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | wells = well | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | preparations for a great feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the princess | marry property | tree rules |
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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