The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 112
So he changed his clothes, and washed himself, and out he set to the prince’s forge and asked him to sit along with himself.
Who acts: fox · What happens: change, wash, set, ask, sit · To what, where: clothes, fox
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 washed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 washed | cc |
| 8 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 washed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 forge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 19 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sit | mark |
| 24 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | xcomp |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 sit | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | fox | fox's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | fox not said here | fox | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | past | fox | to the prince's forge; out property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | fox not said here | fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | fox not said here | along fox | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along himself=Location |
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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