More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 95
She left her army a little out of the town, and she went with her guards straight up to the palace to see the King, and also demanded to see his sons.
Who acts: England · What happens: leave, go, see, demand · To what, where: army, town, palace, King, sons
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (England), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 army | nmod:poss |
| 4 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 left | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 guards | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 guards | nmod:poss |
| 17 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 up | advmod |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 demanded | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 demanded | cc |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 demanded | advmod |
| 30 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 demanded | xcomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sons | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 see | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | England | England's army | the town | a little obl:unmarked | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent army=Theme out town=Location | ||
| 2 | go | past | England | the palace | with England's guards | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | England not said here | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | England not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | England not said here | Prince's sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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