The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 61
So the prince set off to try to find Lucky Luck.
Who acts: prince · What happens: set off, try, find · To what, where: Lucky Luck
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | Lucky | Lucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Luck | compound |
| 11 | Luck | Luck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | Lucky Luck | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/61/