The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 86

The king saw it was useless to hold out, and he took the white flag of truce in one hand, and the real table in the other, and set out to look for Jack.

Who acts: king, it · What happens: see, be, hold out, take, set out, look · To what, where: real table, white flag, one hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (king, it), 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	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 useless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useless	cop
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 useless	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 hold	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flag	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flag	amod
16	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 truce	case
18	truce	truce	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flag	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hand	nummod
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 table	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 table	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 table	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 table	amod
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 table	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
32	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	to	to	PART	_	35 look	mark
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 set	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 Jack	case
37	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 look	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the king	the real table in the other			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it			useless property	tree rules
3	hold out	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	king	the white flag of truce	one hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flag=Value in hand=Location
5	set out	infinitive	the king not said here				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	look	to-infinitive	the king not said here			for Jack	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for jack=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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