The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 110
Then the prince called his courtiers about him and set off with a great retinue to seek a bride.
Who acts: prince · What happens: call, set off, seek · To what, where: courtiers, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 retinue | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 retinue | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 retinue | amod |
| 15 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seek | mark |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bride | det |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the prince | Prince's courtiers | then | about king | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient | ||
| 2 | set off | past | the prince not said here | with a great retinue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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