The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 52
The young man left the king’s presence, surrounded by soldiers, and accompanied by many of his friends, for he was a great favourite.
Who acts: young man, Man · What happens: leave, surround, accompany, be · To what, where: presence
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 surrounded | punct |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 soldiers | case |
| 12 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accompanied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accompanied | cc |
| 15 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 many | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 accompanied | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 many | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 favourite | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 favourite | case |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 favourite | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 favourite | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 favourite | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 favourite | amod |
| 27 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accompanied | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the young man | the king's presence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | the young man not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | by many of Man's friends | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by many=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Man | for a great favourite | 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 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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