The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 12

So they parted, with many tears, and the queen set out with a strong guard to a fortified castle on the outskirts of a great forest, some two hundred miles distant.

Who acts: dangers · What happens: part, set out, fortify · To what, where: many tears, queen, fortified castle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dangers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 parted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 parted	nsubj
3	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tears	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tears	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tears	amod
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 parted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 distant	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 distant	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 distant	nsubj
12	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 queen	acl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 guard	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 guard	det
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 guard	amod
17	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 castle	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 castle	det
20	fortified	fortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 castle	amod
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 outskirts	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 outskirts	det
24	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 castle	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 forest	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 forest	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 forest	amod
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 outskirts	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 distant	punct
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 miles	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hundred	compound
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 miles	nummod
33	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 distant	obl:unmarked
34	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parted	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	part	past	dangers = danger	many tears			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
2	set out	participle		the queen not said here	a fortified castle on the outskirts of a great forest	with a strong guard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
3	fortify	participle					vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=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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