The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 124
Then they all took ship and sailed home, and when they came to the princess's country, Hans disguised himself as the sovereign of a neighbouring kingdom, and went up to the palace alone.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: take, sail, come, disguise, neighbour, go up · To what, where: ship, country, Hans
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sailed | cc |
| 7 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 sailed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disguised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 disguised | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 disguised | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 country | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 20 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 disguised | nsubj |
| 21 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 disguised | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 sovereign | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sovereign | det |
| 25 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disguised | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kingdom | det |
| 28 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 kingdom | amod |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sovereign | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 went | compound:prt |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 palace | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 palace | det |
| 36 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hans = han | ship | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | sail | past | Hans = han not said here | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Hans = han | the princess's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | disguise | past | Hans | Hans | as the sovereign of a neighbouring kingdom | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | |||
| 5 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go up | past | Hans = han not said here | to the palace; alone property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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