The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 66
But at last he was free to rejoin Placida, who at once began the story of her adventures.
Who acts: Prince, Placida · What happens: be, rejoin, begin, adventure · To what, where: last, Placida, story
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Placida), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 free | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 free | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 free | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 free | cop |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rejoin | mark |
| 8 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 free | csubj |
| 9 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rejoin | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 began | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 began | obl |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Placida | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 adventures | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 19 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 story | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | last | free property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rejoin | to-infinitive | Placida | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent placida=Patient | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Placida | the story of Placida's adventures | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | adventure | Placida | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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