Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 37
When the poor princess found that she had been taken captive, she wept bitterly, but the king soothed her and told her how he had fallen in love with her picture and had sailed across half the world to win her.
Who acts: poor princess, princess, king · What happens: find, take, weep, soothe, tell, fall · To what, where: princess, love, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor princess, princess, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 princess | amod |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wept | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 taken | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | ccomp |
| 11 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 taken | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wept | nsubj |
| 14 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 14 wept | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soothed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 soothed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soothed | nsubj |
| 20 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wept | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 soothed | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 soothed | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 fallen | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fallen | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fallen | aux |
| 28 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 told | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 love | case |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fallen | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 picture | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 picture | nmod:poss |
| 33 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fallen | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sailed | cc |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sailed | aux |
| 36 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 fallen | conj |
| 37 | across | across | ADV | _ | 36 sailed | advmod |
| 38 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 40 world | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 world | det |
| 40 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sailed | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 win | mark |
| 42 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sailed | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 win | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the poor princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | princess | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | princess | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | soothe | past | the king | princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the king not said here | princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | fall | past · perfect | king | love | with princess's picture | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 7 | sail | past · perfect | king not said here | half world | across property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | win | to-infinitive | king not said here | princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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