The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 2

Indeed, he often became quite separated from his nobles and attendants, and in fact was particularly fond of lonely adventures.

Who acts: king · What happens: become, separate, be · To what, where: fact

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2860): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 became	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 became	advmod
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 separated	advmod
7	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 became	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 nobles	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nobles	nmod:poss
10	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 separated	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 attendants	cc
12	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nobles	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fond	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fond	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 fact	case
16	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fond	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fond	cop
18	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	19 fond	advmod
19	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 adventures	case
21	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 adventures	amod
22	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fond	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	king		indeed, often property	tree rules
2	separate	participle	king not said here		from king's nobles and attendants	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from noble=Co-Patient
3	is	past	king not said here	fact	of lonely adventures; fond, particularly property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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