The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 8
So now it was the Prince’s turn to set off in a vast hurry, only as soon as he left the Castle he happened to go in exactly the opposite direction to the one Placida had taken.
Who acts: Mole, Prince, one · What happens: be, set off, leave, happen, go in, take · To what, where: turn, vast hurry, Castle, opposite direction, Placida
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Mole, Prince, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 now | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 turn | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turn | acl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hurry | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hurry | det |
| 14 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hurry | amod |
| 15 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 soon | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 hurry | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 left | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 soon | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Castle | det |
| 24 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Castle | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 happened | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 33 direction | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 direction | det |
| 32 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 direction | amod |
| 33 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 one | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 direction | nmod |
| 37 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 taken | aux |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 one | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mole | the Prince's turn | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set off | to-infinitive | a vast hurry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | Prince | the Castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | Prince | the Castle not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go in | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the opposite direction to the one | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | past · perfect · passive | the one not said here | Placida | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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