The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 91
So the coachman was bound in chains and thrown into prison, and the prince was married to the princess and rewarded with half the kingdom.
What happens: bind, throw, marry, reward · To what, where: coachman, prison, prince
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: 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 | _ | 5 bound | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coachman | det |
| 3 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bound | aux:pass |
| 5 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chains | case |
| 7 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bound | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | cc |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bound | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 prison | case |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 married | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 married | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 married | aux:pass |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thrown | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rewarded | cc |
| 22 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 married | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 24 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 26 kingdom | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kingdom | det |
| 26 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rewarded | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past · passive | the coachman | in chains | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in chain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | participle | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result | |||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | the prince | to the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to princess=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | reward | participle | with half kingdom | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with kingdom=Theme |
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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