The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 51

Then they each ate their twenty-seven peas, and the Prince was surprised to find that he wanted nothing more, and he slept as sweetly upon his bed of straw as he had ever done in his palace.

Who acts: peas, Prince · What happens: eat, be, find, want, sleep, do · To what, where: seven peas, nothing, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ate	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 peas	nmod:poss
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seven	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 peas	nummod
9	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 surprised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 surprised	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 surprised	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 surprised	cop
15	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 surprised	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wanted	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 find	ccomp
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 wanted	obj
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 wanted	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slept	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slept	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slept	nsubj
26	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 bed	case
28	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	31 bed	advmod
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slept	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 straw	case
33	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bed	nmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 done	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 done	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 done	aux
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 done	advmod
38	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 slept	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 palace	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 palace	nmod:poss
41	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 done	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	peas = pea	peas's seven peas		then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
2	is	past	the Prince				surprised property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	want	past	Prince	nothing				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
5	sleep	past	Prince				as Prince's bed of straw	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	past · perfect	Prince		Prince's palace	ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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