The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 118
The prince wrote down the answers to his questions, took a friendly leave of Lucky Luck, and set off for home.
Who acts: prince, miller · What happens: write down, take, set off, question · To what, where: answers, friendly leave
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, miller), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 answers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 answers | det |
| 6 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 questions | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 questions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answers | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 leave | det |
| 13 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leave | amod |
| 14 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Lucky | case |
| 16 | Lucky | Lucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | nmod |
| 17 | Luck | Luck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lucky | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | past | the prince | the answers to miller's questions | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the prince not said here | a friendly leave of Lucky | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | the prince not said here | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | question | miller | nom question «communication 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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