The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 63

When he entered the palace, to his great joy he found his wife sitting alone in a vast hall, and they began hastily to invent plans for her escape.

Who acts: prince, wife, brothers · What happens: enter, find, sit, begin, invent, joy · To what, where: palace, wife, vast hall, plans

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, wife, brothers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 entered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 joy	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 joy	nmod:poss
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 joy	amod
10	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obj
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 wife	acl
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 hall	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hall	det
19	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hall	amod
20	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
25	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	24 began	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 invent	mark
27	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
28	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 invent	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 escape	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 escape	nmod:poss
31	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 invent	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	prince	the palace			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
2	find	past	prince	prince's wife		to prince's great joy	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	sit	gerund	prince's wife not said here		a vast hall	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
4	begin	past	brothers = brother			hastily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	invent	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	plans		for wife's escape	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plan=Result for escape=Beneficiary
6	joy		prince				nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
7	escape		wife				nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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