The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 18
In the end he, too, got leave to go; but he went a without a following and alone.
Who acts: prince · What happens: get, leave, go, follow · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 he | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 went | flat:foreign |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 following | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 following | det |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 alone | cc |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 following | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | prince | in the end | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | prince not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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 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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