More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 20
Off they go with all their army with them; but while the soldiers were striking their tents, the Prince bethought himself of his Welsh harp, and had it sent for immediately to take with him in a beautiful wooden case.
Who acts: presents, soldiers, Prince, harp · What happens: go, strike, bethink, have, send, take · To what, where: tents, Prince, harp, beautiful wooden case
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents, soldiers, Prince, harp), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 army | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 army | det:predet |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 army | nmod:poss |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 army | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 bethought | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 bethought | cc |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 striking | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldiers | det |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 striking | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 striking | aux |
| 16 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 bethought | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 striking | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 striking | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bethought | nsubj |
| 22 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 bethought | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 harp | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 harp | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 harp | amod |
| 27 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bethought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bethought | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 immediately | case |
| 34 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 32 sent | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 sent | advcl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 case | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 case | det |
| 41 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 case | amod |
| 42 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 case | amod |
| 43 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | presents = present | with presents's army with people | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with army=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · progressive | the soldiers | presents's tents | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bethink | past | the Prince | Prince | of Prince's Welsh harp | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | the Prince not said here | harp | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | participle | harp not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | harp not said here | a beautiful wooden case | with Prince | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in case=Location |
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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