The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 104
Guards were set till next morning, and then down went the second prince, and sure enough, the youngest of all got himself let down on the third day.
Who acts: youngest, pull · What happens: set, go, get, let down · To what, where: Guards, second prince, pull
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, pull), 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 | Guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux:pass |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 prince | amod |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sure | cc |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | conj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 sure | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 youngest | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youngest | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 got | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 youngest | obl |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 got | obj |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 got | xcomp |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 30 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 day | amod |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 let | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Guards | morning | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the second prince | then | down property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | past | the youngest | pull | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let down | infinitive | pull not said here | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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