The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 75
The gold-bearded man had been in captivity about a month, when the king was forced to make war upon a neighbouring country, and left the palace, to take command of his army.
Who acts: bearded man, king · What happens: be, force, make, neighbour, leave, take · To what, where: captivity, king, war, palace, command, army · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bearded man, king), 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 | 5 man | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bearded | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gold | punct |
| 4 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captivity | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 captivity | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 captivity | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 captivity | case |
| 9 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 month | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 month | det |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 captivity | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 forced | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 forced | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forced | aux:pass |
| 18 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 captivity | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forced | xcomp |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 24 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 country | amod |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forced | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 left | advcl |
| 34 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 army | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 army | nmod:poss |
| 37 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 command | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 captivity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the bearded man | captivity | month | tree rules | |||
| 2 | force | past · passive | the king | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the king not said here | war | upon a neighbouring country | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product | |||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | leave | past | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | command of man's army | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||||
| 7 | command | man's army | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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