English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 7
The young princess having lost her father's love, grew weary of the Court, and one day, meeting with her father in the garden, she begged him, with tears in her eyes, to let her go and seek her fortune; to which the king consented, and ordered her mother-in-law to give her what she pleased.
Who acts: young princess, love, princess, king, father · What happens: have, lose, grow, meet, beg, let · To what, where: love, garden, king, princess, fortune, mother
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young princess, love, princess, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 princess | acl |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 princess | punct |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Court | det |
| 15 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weary | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 day | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 day | nummod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meeting | punct |
| 21 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 grew | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meeting | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 garden | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meeting | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 begged | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 begged | nsubj |
| 30 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 begged | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tears | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 tears | case |
| 34 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 begged | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tears | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 let | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 let | mark |
| 40 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 begged | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 let | obj |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 let | xcomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 seek | cc |
| 44 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 go | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 46 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seek | obj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 ordered | punct |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 which | case |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 ordered | obl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 king | det |
| 51 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 ordered | nsubj |
| 52 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 king | acl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 ordered | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 ordered | cc |
| 55 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 begged | parataxis |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 mother | nmod:poss |
| 57 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 ordered | obj |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 61 law | punct |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 law | case |
| 60 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 59 in | punct |
| 61 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 mother | nmod |
| 62 | to | to | PART | _ | 63 give | mark |
| 63 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 61 law | acl |
| 64 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 give | iobj |
| 65 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 67 pleased | nsubj |
| 66 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 67 pleased | nsubj |
| 67 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 give | ccomp |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the young princess not said here | princess's father's love | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | princess's father's love not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the young princess | day | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | meet | gerund | the young princess not said here | the garden | with princess's father | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | princess | king | with tears in princess's eyes | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | let | to-infinitive | princess not said here | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | princess not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | seek | infinitive | princess not said here | princess's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 9 | consent | participle | the king not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | order | past | the king | princess's mother | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | ||||
| 11 | give | to-infinitive | the king not said here | princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 12 | love | princess's father | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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