The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 92
Then they went hand in hand to release all the prisoners in the castle, and all the Princes and Princesses who were in cages in the menagerie, for the instant the Green Giant was dead they had resumed their natural forms.
Who acts: adventures, Princes, menagerie · What happens: go, release, be, resume, form · To what, where: hand, prisoners, castle, menagerie, natural forms
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, Princes, menagerie), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 release | mark |
| 8 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 prisoners | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prisoners | det |
| 11 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 release | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prisoners | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 menagerie | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 menagerie | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Princes | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princes | det |
| 19 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 menagerie | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Princesses | cc |
| 21 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Princes | conj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 were | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 menagerie | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cages | case |
| 25 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 were | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 menagerie | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 menagerie | det |
| 28 | menagerie | menagerie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dead | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 instant | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 instant | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 instant | det |
| 32 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 menagerie | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Giant | det |
| 34 | Green | Green | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Giant | compound |
| 35 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 instant | amod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 dead | cop |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 resumed | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 resumed | aux |
| 40 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 dead | ccomp |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 forms | nmod:poss |
| 42 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 forms | amod |
| 43 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 resumed | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | adventures = adventure | hand | hand | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | release | to-infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | all prisoners | the castle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer prisoner=Source | |||
| 3 | is | past | all Princes and Princesses | the menagerie and the instant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the menagerie and the instant | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | resume | past · perfect | adventures = adventure | adventures's natural forms | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | form | adventures = adventure | nom form «communication 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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