The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 63
When she arrived there she went straight to the Royal palace, and let the King be told she had come to cure the young Prince.
Who acts: Grannonia · What happens: arrive, go, let, tell, come, cure · To what, where: Royal palace, King, young Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 palace | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 10 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arrived | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | aux:pass |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 let | xcomp |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 told | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cure | mark |
| 23 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Prince | amod |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cure | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Grannonia | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Grannonia | the Royal palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Grannonia not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive · passive | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | Grannonia | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cure | to-infinitive | Grannonia not said here | the young Prince | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer prince=Source |
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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