The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 69
Just as the princess had foretold, in three days the king set out for the war with a large following, and among them was the young prince, who had presented himself at court as a young noble in search of adventures.
Who acts: wars · What happens: foretell, set out, follow, be, present, search · To what, where: princess, king, large young prince, court, adventures
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wars), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 foretold | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 foretold | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 foretold | aux |
| 6 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 days | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foretold | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foretold | obj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 king | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 war | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 war | det |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 prince | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 prince | amod |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 prince | case |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 prince | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 prince | cc |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 29 prince | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 prince | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 prince | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 prince | amod |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 presented | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 presented | aux |
| 33 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 prince | conj |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 presented | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 court | case |
| 36 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 presented | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 noble | mark |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 noble | det |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 noble | amod |
| 40 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 presented | advcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 search | case |
| 42 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 noble | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 adventures | case |
| 44 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 search | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 foretold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell | past · perfect · passive | the princess | day | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | set out | participle | the king not said here | for the war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | wars = war | with a large young prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | present | past · perfect · passive | a large young prince | court | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | search | adventures | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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