English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 23

But as each son was born Prince Florentine carried the little thing away on his back over the sea to where the queen his mother lived and left the little one with her.

Who acts: queen · What happens: bear, carry, live, leave · To what, where: son, little thing, back, little one

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	_	9 carried	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 born	mark
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 born	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 carried	advcl
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Florentine	nmod:desc
8	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 born	obl
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 back	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	26 lived	case
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lived	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 queen	det
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	nsubj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 left	cc
28	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lived	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 one	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		each son		Florentine Prince obl	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	carry	past		the little thing	son's back	over the sea; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	live	past	the queen				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past	the queen not said here	the little one		with mother	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Recipient with she=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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