The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 108
They set out at once for the Sultan’s palace, and when they reached it, they were taken straight into his presence.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: set out, reach, take · To what, where: palace, brothers, presence
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 set | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sultan | case |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 taken | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 set | parataxis |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 presence | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 presence | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 presence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | brothers = brother | for the Sultan's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | brothers = brother | palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | brothers = brother | sword's presence | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=Destination |
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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