The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 23

When the king’s anger was spent, and he was able to think what was best to be done, he exchanged his baby, a beautiful boy, for the daughter of a peasant, and the prince lived roughly as the son of poor people, while the little girl slept in a golden cradle, under silken sheets.

Who acts: anger, prince, king · What happens: spend, be, think, do, exchange, live · To what, where: anger, baby, little girl, golden cradle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, prince, king), 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	SCONJ	_	7 spent	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anger	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	aux:pass
7	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 exchanged	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 able	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spent	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 think	mark
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 best	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 best	cop
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 think	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	20 done	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 think	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 exchanged	nsubj
23	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 baby	nmod:poss
25	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exchanged	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 boy	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 boy	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 baby	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 daughter	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 daughter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 daughter	det
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exchanged	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 peasant	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 peasant	det
36	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 daughter	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lived	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lived	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 prince	det
40	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lived	nsubj
41	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 exchanged	conj
42	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	41 lived	advmod
43	as	as	ADP	_	45 son	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 son	det
45	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lived	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 people	case
47	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 people	amod
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 son	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 girl	punct
50	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 girl	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 girl	det
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 girl	amod
53	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lived	parataxis
54	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 girl	acl
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 cradle	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 cradle	det
57	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 cradle	amod
58	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 slept	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 sheets	punct
60	under	under	ADP	_	62 sheets	case
61	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 sheets	amod
62	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 slept	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 exchanged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		the king's anger			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	is	past	anger			able property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	anger not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is	past				good property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive · passive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»
6	exchange	past	anger	anger's baby and a beautiful boy		for the daughter of a peasant	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent baby=Theme for daughter=Co-Theme
7	live	past	the prince			as the son of poor people; roughly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sleep	participle		the little girl not said here	a golden cradle	under silken sheets	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location
9	anger		the king				nom anger «feeling 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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