The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 13

The prince at once fell in love with her, and they talked together for some time, till the maiden said her sisters had finished plucking the apples, and now they must all go home again.

Who acts: prince, boughs, maiden · What happens: fall, talk, say, finish, pluck, go · To what, where: love, sisters, apples · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, boughs, maiden), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 fell	obl
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 love	case
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 talked	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talked	nsubj
13	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 talked	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 said	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maiden	det
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 talked	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sisters	nmod:poss
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 finished	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 finished	aux
26	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 said	ccomp
27	plucking	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 finished	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 apples	det
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 plucking	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 go	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	again	again	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the prince		love		with eight	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	talk	past	boughs = bough			time	together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the maiden					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	finish	past · perfect · passive		maiden's sisters				tree rules
5	pluck	gerund		the apples				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
6	go	must	boughs = bough			now; again	all, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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