The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 131
Things were in this state when he was invited to visit the court of his father’s cousin, King Bardondon.
Who acts: Things, Prince · What happens: be, invite, visit · To what, where: state, Prince, court
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 (Things, 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 state | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 state | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 state | det |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 invited | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 invited | aux:pass |
| 9 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 state | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 visit | mark |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invited | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 court | det |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visit | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cousin | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 court | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cousin | appos |
| 21 | Bardondon | Bardondon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Things | this state | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | Prince | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the court of Prince's father's cousin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-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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