The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 7
So, soon afterwards, the youth, who had not gone far from the palace, was caught and ushered into the king's presence.
Who acts: youth · What happens: not go, catch, usher · To what, where: palace, youth, presence
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | _ | 19 caught | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 afterwards | advmod |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 youth | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 youth | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 gone | advmod |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 youth | acl:relcl |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 palace | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 youth | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | aux:pass |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ushered | cc |
| 21 | ushered | usher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 caught | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 presence | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 presence | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ushered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | the youth | the palace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the youth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | usher | participle | the king's presence | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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 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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