The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 34
In a few days they were married, and the prince forgot his father and his brothers, and made up his mind that he would live and die in the castle.
Who acts: prince · What happens: marry, forget, make up, live, die, mind · To what, where: wits, father, mind
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forgot | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgot | nsubj |
| 12 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgot | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brothers | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 father | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 married | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 made | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 live | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 live | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 live | aux |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 die | cc |
| 29 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 live | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 castle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 castle | det |
| 32 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 die | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | wits = wit | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | the prince | prince's father and prince's brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | participle | prince's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | live | would | prince | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die | infinitive | prince not said here | in the castle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in castle=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | mind | prince | nom mind «cognition 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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