Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 37
When the prince came home, and found Gold-tree dead, he was in great sorrow, and when he saw how beautiful she was, he did not bury her at all, but he locked her in a room where nobody would get near her.
Who acts: prince, mother, nobody · What happens: come, find, be, see, not bury, lock · To what, where: great sorrow, mother, all, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, mother, nobody), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorrow | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gold | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dead | compound |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sorrow | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorrow | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sorrow | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sorrow | amod |
| 18 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 saw | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorrow | acl:relcl |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 beautiful | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 beautiful | cop |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bury | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bury | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bury | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 bury | advmod |
| 32 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 saw | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bury | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 bury | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 locked | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 locked | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 locked | nsubj |
| 39 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 locked | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 room | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 room | det |
| 43 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 locked | obl |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 get | advmod |
| 45 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 47 get | nsubj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 get | aux |
| 47 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 room | acl:relcl |
| 48 | near | near | ADP | _ | 49 her | case |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 get | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the prince | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the prince not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | great sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | mother | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not bury | past · do-support | prince | mother | all | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme at all=Destination | |||
| 7 | lock | past | prince | mother | a room | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 8 | get | would | nobody | near mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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