The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 17
That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything passed as before, and so it happened for several nights.
Who acts: prince, everything, it · What happens: return, pass, happen
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, everything, it), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 returned | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 passed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happened | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 happened | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 nights | case |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nights | amod |
| 23 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 happened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the prince | evening | to the apple tree result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result | |||
| 2 | pass | participle | everything | before property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | it | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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