The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 32
A message was sent to her, and when she stood at the gate the prince thought he had lost his wits, for there was the maiden he had left his home to seek.
Who acts: empress, prince, maiden · What happens: send, stand, think, lose, be, leave · To what, where: message, empress, prince, gate, wits, home · 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 (empress, prince, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 message | det |
| 2 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stood | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wits | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maiden | det |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 left | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 left | aux |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 seek | mark |
| 35 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 left | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | a message | empress | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | empress | the prince | the gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | prince | prince's wits | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | be | past | the maiden | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect | prince | prince's home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 7 | seek | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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