The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 37
The king’s son did as he was bid, and before the raven stopped flying, they had passed over seven bens and seven glens and seven mountain moors.
Who acts: son · What happens: do, bid, stop, fly, pass over · To what, where: son, wings
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 bid | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bid | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bid | aux:pass |
| 9 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 did | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 raven | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 raven | det |
| 14 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | obl |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 passed | aux |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stopped | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 seven | advmod |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 bens | nummod |
| 23 | bens | ben | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 passed | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glens | cc |
| 25 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 glens | nummod |
| 26 | glens | glen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bens | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 moors | cc |
| 28 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 moors | nummod |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moors | compound |
| 30 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bens | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king's son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | before the raven | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pass over | past · perfect · passive | wings = wing | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient ben=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 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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