The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 70
They had left the city many miles behind them, when the king suddenly discovered that he had forgotten his sword, and though all his attendants instantly offered theirs, he declared that he could fight with none but his own.
Who acts: wars, king, attendants · What happens: leave, discover, forget, offer, declare, fight · To what, where: city, sword, wars
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, king, attendants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 miles | amod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 miles | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 discovered | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 discovered | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discovered | nsubj |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 discovered | advmod |
| 15 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 forgotten | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 forgotten | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgotten | aux |
| 19 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 discovered | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sword | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgotten | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 declared | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 declared | cc |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 offered | mark |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 attendants | det:predet |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 27 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 offered | nsubj |
| 28 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 29 offered | advmod |
| 29 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 declared | advcl |
| 30 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 offered | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 offered | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 declared | nsubj |
| 33 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 discovered | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 fight | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fight | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 fight | aux |
| 37 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 declared | xcomp |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 none | case |
| 39 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 37 fight | obl |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 own | cc |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 own | nmod:poss |
| 42 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 none | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | wars = war | the city | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent city=Theme mile=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | the king | suddenly property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | forget | past · perfect | king | king's sword | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | offer | past | king's attendants | wars = war | instantly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent their=Theme | |||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fight | could | king | with none | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with none=Co-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 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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