The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 65
The Princes, now that the cause of their dispute was removed, put up their swords, kissed each other affectionately, and returned to their father.
Who acts: Princes, feuds · What happens: remove, put up, kiss, return, cause, dispute · To what, where: cause, swords, Princes, dispute
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, feuds), 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 Princes | det |
| 2 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 kissed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 removed | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 removed | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 removed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cause | det |
| 7 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dispute | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dispute | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cause | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 removed | aux:pass |
| 12 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Princes | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 removed | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 swords | nmod:poss |
| 17 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kissed | punct |
| 19 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kissed | obj |
| 22 | affectionately | affectionately | ADV | _ | 19 kissed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 returned | cc |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 kissed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past · passive | the Princes not said here | the cause of feuds's dispute | now | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | put up | infinitive | the Princes not said here | feuds's swords | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sword=Goal | ||||
| 3 | kiss | participle · passive | the Princes | affectionately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | past | to feuds's father result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result | |||||
| 5 | cause | feuds's dispute | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | dispute | feuds = feud | nom dispute «communication intransitive»: 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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