The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 53

By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him going about to seek counsel from wise men of all sorts, as to how he might escape death, but no one could help him, for none could find any excuse for the blow he had given to the prince.

Who acts: Man, fourteen days, one, none, blow · What happens: spend, remain, go, seek, escape, help · To what, where: Man, counsel, death, excuse, prince

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 (Man, fourteen days, one, none), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 advice	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 advice	nmod:poss
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spent	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 remained	nsubj
10	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 days	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remained	obl
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 remained	advcl
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 seek	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 seek	mark
16	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
17	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seek	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 men	case
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 men	amod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seek	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sorts	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sorts	det
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 men	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 escape	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 escape	mark
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 escape	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 escape	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 escape	aux
30	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seek	conj
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 escape	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 help	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 help	cc
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 help	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 help	aux
37	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spent	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 help	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 find	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 find	mark
41	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	43 find	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 find	aux
43	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 help	conj
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 excuse	det
45	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 find	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 blow	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 blow	det
48	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 find	obl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 given	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 given	aux
51	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 blow	acl:relcl
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 prince	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 prince	det
54	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 given	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Man			day	by friends's advice	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	remain	past	the fourteen days		Man			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	gerund	the fourteen days not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	seek	to-infinitive	the fourteen days not said here	counsel			from wise men of all sorts	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
5	escape	might	Man	death				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
6	help	could	no one		Man			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	find	could	none	any excuse			for the blow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme for blow=Beneficiary
8	give	past · perfect · passive	the blow not said here	Man	the prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to prince=Recipient

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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