The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 92
One day, soon after his marriage, the prince was walking through the woods in the evening, followed by his faithful beasts.
Who acts: prince, faithful beasts, king · What happens: walk, follow, marry · To what, where: woods, One day
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, faithful beasts, king), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 marriage | punct |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 marriage | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walking | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | aux |
| 12 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 marriage | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woods | det |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walking | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 evening | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 beasts | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beasts | amod |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 followed | obl:agent |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the prince | the woods | evening | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | follow | participle · passive | king's faithful beasts | One day after king's marriage | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | king | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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