The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 26
They never came back any more, though the prince returned to the tree every night, and wept his heart out for his lost love.
Who acts: hens, prince · What happens: not come back, return, weep out, lose, love · To what, where: heart
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 (hens, prince), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | any | any | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 returned | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wept | cc |
| 19 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wept | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 wept | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 love | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 love | amod |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come back | past | hens = hen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past | the prince | night | to the tree result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result | |||
| 3 | weep out | past | hens = hen not said here | prince's heart | for prince's lost love | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | love | prince | nom love «feeling 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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