The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 105
The king’s son allowed himself to be persuaded and took leave of his father-in-law, and set out with his wife on his journey home.
Who acts: son · What happens: allow, persuade, take, set out, journey · To what, where: son, leave, journey
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 allowed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 persuaded | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 9 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 persuaded | conj |
| 12 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 law | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 law | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 persuaded | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 journey | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 journey | nmod:poss |
| 29 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 set | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the king's son | son | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | son not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | take | past | son not said here | leave of law | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | son not said here | son's journey | with son's wife; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | journey | son | 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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