The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 90
At last he gave consent, and ordered out his royal yacht, with 100 cross-bows, 100 knights, and 1,000 soldiers, to escort the Princess Helena.
Who acts: king · What happens: give, order out, escort · To what, where: consent, last, royal yacht, Princess Helena
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 ordered | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 yacht | nmod:poss |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 yacht | amod |
| 12 | yacht | yacht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cross-bows | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cross-bows | case |
| 15 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 cross-bows | nummod |
| 16 | cross-bows | cross-bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knights | punct |
| 18 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 knights | nummod |
| 19 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cross-bows | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 soldiers | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 soldiers | cc |
| 22 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 soldiers | nummod |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cross-bows | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 escort | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 escort | mark |
| 26 | escort | escort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Helena | det |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Helena | compound |
| 29 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 escort | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | king | consent | last | with 100 cross-bows and 100 knights and 1,000 soldiers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent consent=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 2 | order out | participle | king not said here | king's royal yacht | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yacht=Theme | ||||
| 3 | escort | to-infinitive | king not said here | the Princess Helena | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helena=Theme |
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/pg2435/5/90/