The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 126
She had fixed upon the son of a king who was cousin to Bardondon, to bring up as her fickle Prince.
Who acts: king · What happens: fix, be, bring up · To what, where: girl, cousin, Bardondon
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fixed | aux |
| 3 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cousin | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cousin | cop |
| 12 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Bardondon | case |
| 14 | Bardondon | Bardondon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cousin | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fixed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 bring | compound:prt |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Prince | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fickle | fickle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Prince | amod |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · perfect · passive | girl | upon the son of a king | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a king | cousin | Bardondon | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring up | to-infinitive | as girl's fickle Prince | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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