The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 69

But it was in vain that he talked; the prince would listen to nothing, and the following morning buckled on his sword and set forth on his journey.

Who acts: order, king, prince · What happens: be, talk, listen, follow, buckle, set · To what, where: following morning, journey

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (order, king, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 vain	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 vain	case
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 talked	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talked	nsubj
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 listen	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 listen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 listen	aux
13	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vain	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 nothing	case
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 listen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 morning	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 morning	det
19	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 morning	amod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 listen	obl:unmarked
21	buckled	buckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 morning	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 sword	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sword	nmod:poss
24	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 buckled	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 listen	conj
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 set	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 journey	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 journey	nmod:poss
30	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	order				vain property	tree rules
2	talk	past	king					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	would	the prince			morning	to nothing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme
4	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	buckle	participle		the following morning not said here			on king's sword	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on sword=Co-Patient
6	set	infinitive	the prince not said here		king's journey		forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination
7	journey		king					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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