The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 5
When the Prince got home he found his brothers had just arrived with great waggon-loads of little dogs of all sorts.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: get, find, arrive · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arrived | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 arrived | advmod |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 loads | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 loads | amod |
| 15 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loads | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 waggon | punct |
| 17 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arrived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dogs | case |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dogs | amod |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 loads | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sorts | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sorts | det |
| 23 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dogs | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Prince | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | Prince's brothers | with great waggon loads of little dogs of all sorts | 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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