The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 2
The consequence was that they gradually gave away all their treasures, till they positively had nothing left to live upon; and this coming to the ears of their neighbour, King Bruin, he promptly raised a large army and marched into their country.
Who acts: subjects, this, consequence · What happens: give away, have, leave, live, come, raise · To what, where: treasures, nothing, consequence, large army, country
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subjects, this, consequence), 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 | 2 consequence | det |
| 2 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 consequence | acl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gave | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | advcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 treasures | det:predet |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 15 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 nothing | acl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 left | xcomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 live | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 coming | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 coming | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 coming | nsubj |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 consequence | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ears | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ears | det |
| 28 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 coming | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 neighbour | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 31 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ears | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 King | punct |
| 33 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 consequence | appos |
| 34 | Bruin | Bruin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 King | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 consequence | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 raised | nsubj |
| 37 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 38 raised | advmod |
| 38 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 army | det |
| 40 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 army | amod |
| 41 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 raised | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 marched | cc |
| 43 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 raised | conj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 country | case |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 country | nmod:poss |
| 46 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 marched | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | subjects = subject | subjects's treasures | away, gradually property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | subjects = subject | nothing | positively property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | gerund | this | the consequence not said here | to the ears of subjects's neighbour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location consequence=Theme | |||
| 6 | raise | past | the consequence | a large army | promptly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 7 | march | past | the consequence not said here | into subjects's country result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into country=Result | ||||
| 8 | treasure | subjects = subject | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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