The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 24

At the end of a year, the stranger arrived to claim his property, and took away the little girl, believing her to be the true child of the king.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: arrive, claim, take away, believe, be · To what, where: end, property, little girl, girl, true child · 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 (stranger), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stranger	det
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 claim	mark
12	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 arrived	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 property	nmod:poss
14	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claim	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	conj
18	away	away	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 believing	punct
23	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 took	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 believing	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	29 child	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 child	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 believing	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 king	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 child	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the stranger		at the end of a year		tree rules
2	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here	stranger's property			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent property=Topic
3	take away	past	the stranger not said here	the little girl			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
4	believe	gerund	the stranger not said here	girl			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	is a	to-infinitive		the true child		of the king	tree rules

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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