The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 88
So the prince walked into the palace, and went straight up to the coachman and said: ‘What token have you got that you killed the dragon and won the hand of the princess?
Who acts: prince, token, you · What happens: walk, go, say, get, kill, win · To what, where: palace, coachman, dragon, hand · 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 (prince, token, you), 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 | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 up | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 coachman | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coachman | det |
| 15 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 20 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 21 token | det |
| 21 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 killed | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 killed | nsubj |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 won | cc |
| 31 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 killed | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hand | det |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 won | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 princess | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 princess | det |
| 36 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hand | nmod |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the prince | into the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the prince not said here | the coachman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coachman=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | present · perfect | what token | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | kill | past | you | the dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | ||||
| 6 | win | past | you not said here | the hand of the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |
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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