The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 30
And the prince determined that when he grew old enough he would travel all over the world, and never rest till he had set her free.
Who acts: prince · What happens: determine, grow, travel, not rest, set · To what, where: world, prince
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 determined | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 grew | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determined | ccomp |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 old | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 travel | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 travel | aux |
| 13 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 old | acl:relcl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 world | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travel | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rest | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rest | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 rest | advmod |
| 21 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 determined | conj |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 set | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 rest | ccomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 free | nmod:poss |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 set | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the prince | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | prince | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | travel | would | prince | the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not rest | infinitive | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | set | past · perfect · passive | prince | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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