The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 39
Meanwhile the son went to the King’s palace, and arrived just when the real prince was absent.
Who acts: son, real prince · What happens: go, arrive, be · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, real 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | cc |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 absent | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 absent | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prince | amod |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 absent | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 absent | cop |
| 19 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arrived | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the son | the King's palace | meanwhile property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | the son not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the real prince | absent property | 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 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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