The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 89
The next day the prince watched till the dragon left the house, and then he crept in to the empress, who told him all she had learnt from her gaoler.
Who acts: prince, dragon, empress, head · What happens: watch, leave, creep in, tell, learn · To what, where: house, empress, dragon, gaoler · 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 (prince, dragon, empress, head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | nsubj |
| 6 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 left | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 crept | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 crept | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 crept | nsubj |
| 17 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 crept | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 empress | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 empress | det |
| 21 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crept | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 told | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 told | nsubj |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 empress | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 him | det |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 learnt | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 learnt | aux |
| 29 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 told | ccomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 gaoler | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 gaoler | nmod:poss |
| 32 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 learnt | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the prince | day | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the dragon | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | creep in | past | dragon | the empress | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to empress=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the empress | dragon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | learn | past · perfect | head | head's gaoler | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from gaoler=Source |
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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