English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 49
They saw their pretty bride carried away and away till she and the herons and the swans and the goshawk disappeared, and that very day Prince Florentine brought Earl Mar's daughter to the castle of the queen his mother, who took the spell off him and they lived happy ever afterwards.
Who acts: weddineers, pretty bride, goshawk, day, mother · What happens: see, carry away, disappear, bring, take, live · To what, where: daughter, castle, spell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (weddineers, pretty bride, goshawk, day), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bride | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bride | amod |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 carried | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 away | cc |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 away | conj |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 herons | case |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 herons | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 herons | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 herons | det |
| 14 | herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swans | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 swans | det |
| 17 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 herons | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 disappeared | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goshawk | det |
| 20 | goshawk | goshawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 day | advmod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 day | appos |
| 28 | Florentine | Florentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Prince | flat |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 30 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Mar | March | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 30 Earl | flat |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Earl | case |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 castle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 queen | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 queen | det |
| 39 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 castle | nmod |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 mother | nmod:poss |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 queen | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 took | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 took | nsubj |
| 44 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 mother | acl:relcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 spell | det |
| 46 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | obj |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 took | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 lived | cc |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 lived | nsubj |
| 51 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 took | conj |
| 52 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 lived | xcomp |
| 53 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 54 afterwards | advmod |
| 54 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 51 lived | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | weddineers = weddineer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | carry away | past | weddineers's pretty bride | till the herons and the swans | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | the goshawk | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | that day | Earl's daughter | the castle of the queen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 5 | take | past | prince's mother | the spell | off prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spell=Theme off he=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | live | past | weddineers = weddineer | afterwards, happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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